raker

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rake [1] ► NOUN ▪ an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used for drawing together leaves, cut grass, etc. or smoothing loose soil or gravel.

► VERB 1) draw together with a rake. 2) make smooth with a rake. 3) scratch or scrape with a long sweeping movement. 4) draw or drag (something) through something with a long sweeping movement. 5) sweep with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light. 6) (rake through) search or rummage through.

● rake it in — Cf. ↑rake it in

● rake over old coals (or rake over the ashes) — Cf. ↑rake over the ashes

● rake up/over — Cf. ↑rake up/over

DERIVATIVES raker noun.

ORIGIN Old English; the verb is partly from Old Norse.

Ⅱ.

rake [2] ► NOUN ▪ a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute habits.

ORIGIN abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense.

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rake [3] ► VERB 1) set at a sloping angle. 2) (of a ship's mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern.

► NOUN 1) the angle at which a thing slopes. 2) the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.

ORIGIN probably related to German ragen 'to project' .