An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, - used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, - used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; - called also rake-vein.
The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.
To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; - often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
To search through; to scour; to ransack.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
