Definitions for rake

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Spelling: [reyk]

IPA: /reɪk/

Rake is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in rake (aekr).

Definitions for rake

noun

1. an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
2. any of various implements having a similar form, as a croupier's implement for gathering in money on a gaming table.
3. a dissolute or profligate person, especially a man who is licentious; roué.
4. inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
5. a board or molding placed along the sloping sides of a frame gable to cover the ends of the siding.
6. Aeronautics. the angle measured between the tip edge of an aircraft or missile wing or other lifting surface and the plane of symmetry.
7. Machinery. the angle between the cutting face of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface of the work at the cutting point.

Idioms

1. rake over the coals. coal (def 8).

verb (used with object)

1. to gather, draw, or remove with a rake:
2. to clear, smooth, or prepare with a rake:
3. to clear (a fire, embers, etc.) by stirring with a poker or the like.
4. to gather or collect abundantly (usually followed by in):
5. to bring to light, usually for discreditable reasons (usually followed by up):
6. to search thoroughly through:
7. to scrape; scratch:
8. to scoop out (a masonry joint) to a given depth while the mortar is still green.
9. to fire guns along the length of (a position, body of troops, ship, etc.).
10. to sweep with the eyes:
11. to cause (something) to incline from the vertical or the horizontal.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a rake:
2. to search, as with a rake:
3. to scrape; search:
4. to incline from the vertical, as a mast, or from the horizontal.
5. Hunting. (of a hawk) to fly after game. (of a dog) to hunt with the nose close to the ground instead of in the wind.
6. Chiefly Scot. to go or proceed, especially with speed.

Origin of rake

before 900; (noun) Middle English rak(e), Old English raca (masculine), racu (feminine); cognate with German Rechen, Old Norse reka shovel; (v.) Middle English raken, partly derivative of the

Examples for rake

But you rake a match to light the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him.

The Kerry Washington–led show continues to rake in impressive audience ratings, even during its holiday break.

The next 10 times after that, the sheer repetition made it funny again, like the famous Simpsons rake joke.

This year, Facebook will rake in $2.2 billion in display ads versus $1.6 billion for Yahoo.

“This is my collage about a farm,” he said pointing out a rake, plant, and chicken.

And what must that child be, who prefers the rake to a father?

I suppose the Pilgrim and the rake are contrasted with each other.

That tour, of course, is the On the Run tour featuring Beyoncé and Jay Z, which is on track to rake in up to $100 million.

Besides, they can rake us with bullets from ambush, while we're climbing up the ridge.

What security, that your rake will not follow you to the world's end?