Crossword-Solution: RAKE
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| Rake | n. | 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. |
| Rake | n. | A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake. |
| Rake | n. | A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. |
| Rake | v. t. | To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. |
| Rake | v. t. | 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. |
| Rake | v. t. | 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. |
| Rake | v. t. | To search through; to scour; to ransack. |
| Rake | v. t. | To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. |
| Rake | v. t. | 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. |
| Rake | v. i. | To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. |
| Rake | v. i. | To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. |
| Rake | n. | The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. |
| Rake | n. | the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel. |
| Rake | v. i. | To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. |
| Rake | n. | A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue. |
| Rake | v. i. | To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. |
| Rake | v. i. | To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RAKE | anagram | AKER, KARE, KERA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with RAKE (5)
When a rake gambles away his expectations, the fact that it is an inconvenient debt doesn’t make him the less liable.
Where your calling is more open to criticism is when you pry into the secrets of private individuals, when you rake up family matters which are better hidden, and when you incidentally waste the time of men who are more busy than yourself.
Madame Dandelard was a little Italian lady who had married a Frenchman who proved to be a rake and a brute and the torment of her life.
Almost as he spoke the huge figure of the hairy gardener appeared on a higher ridge of the trenched and terraced lawn, hailing them with a brandished rake and a horribly bellowing voice.
Wherefore, unless thou shalt with ceaseless rake The weeds pursue, with shouting scare the birds, Prune with thy hook the dark field's matted shade, Pray down the showers, all vainly thou shalt eye, Alack! thy neighbour's heaped-up harvest-mow, And in the greenwood from a shaken oak Seek solace for thine hunger.
Quotes with RAKE (3)
You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is that the happiness worth more than fr…
Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.
Queer creatures, females," mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. "Fellow's only got to be a rake to have 'em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason---- Well never mind that!
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 600 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).