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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: Rake and råke

English

[edit] WOTD – 10 November 2020

Pronunciation

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A wooden rake (sense 1) used for gardening.

A heavy-duty metal rake (sense 1) for moving rocks and soil.

A horse-drawn hayrake (sense 1).

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɹeɪk/
Audio (General American): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪk
Homophone: raik

Etymology 1

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From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).

Cognates

The English word is cognate with Danish rage (chiefly regional), Middle Dutch rāke, rēke (modern Dutch raak, reek (both regional), riek (“pitchfork, rake”)), Middle Low German rāke, racke (modern German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”)), Old High German rehho, rech (Middle High German reche, modern German Rechen (“rake”)), Old Norse reka (“shovel”) (modern Icelandic reka (“shovel”)), Old Saxon recho, Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“rake; (long) straight section of a road”)).[2]

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

(agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor. Synonym: (horse-drawn rake) horserake
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
1. (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
2. A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
(cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- 1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎[1] (Usenet):I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot).
- 2003 August 19, Ilmari Karonen, “Inquiries about Conway's game of life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎[2] (Usenet):That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.
- 2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.

Derived terms

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cavex rake
clam rake
de-thatching rake
dethatching rake
fire rake
grass rake
hay rake
hayrake
hell-rake
horserake
lawn rake
muckrake
rakeback
rakeful
rakehoe
rakeless
rakelike
rakemaker
raker
rake receiver
rakestale
rake-stepping
roof rake
snake rake
spring rake
step on a rake
stubble rake
thatcher's rake
thatching rake
thatch rake
thatch-rake
thin as a rake (possibly)
top rake

Translations

[edit] garden tool

Albanian: grabujë (sq) f, rashqel (sq) m
Altai: Southern Altai: тырмууш (tïrmuuš)
Arabic: مِدَمَّة f (midamma), مُشْط (ar) m (mušṭ), مِشْط (ar) m (mišṭ), مَشْط (ar) m (mašṭ)
Armenian: փոցխ (hy) (pʻocʻx)
Assamese: জবকা (zoboka), জবকিয়া (zobokia)
Azerbaijani: dırmıq (az)
Bashkir: тырма (tırma)
Basque: are (eu)
Belarusian: гра́блі f pl (hrábli)
Bikol: Central Bikol: kagkag (bcl)
Bulgarian: гребло́ (bg) n (grebló)
Burmese: ဂျုတ် (my) (gyut), ထွန်ခြစ် (my) (htwanhkrac)
Carpathian Rusyn: граблї f pl (hrablji)
Catalan: rampí (ca) m, rasclet (ca) m
Chinese: Mandarin: 耙 (zh) (pá), 耙子 (zh) (pázi)
Czech: hrábě (cs) f pl
Danish: rive (da) c
Dutch: hark (nl) m, gritsel (nl) m (Belgium)
Esperanto: rastilo
Estonian: reha (et)
Faroese: ríva f
Finnish: harava (fi)
French: râteau (fr) m
Galician: angazo m, anciño m
Georgian: ფოცხი (ka) (pocxi)
German: Rechen (de) m, Harke (de) f
Greek: τσουγκράνα (el) f (tsougkrána) Ancient Greek: ἀγρίφη f (agríphē)
Hebrew: מַגְרֵפָה (he) f (magrefá)
Hindi: जेली (hi) f (jelī)
Hungarian: gereblye (hu)
Icelandic: hrífa (is) f
Ingrian: harava, haro (obsolete)
Irish: ráca m
Italian: rastrello (it) m
Japanese: 熊手 (ja) (くまで, kumade)
Kalmyk: мааҗур (maajur)
Karachay-Balkar: бахса (baxsa) (Balkar), басха (basxa) (Karachay)
Kazakh: тырма (tyrma), тырнауыш (tyrnauyş)
Khakas: тырбос (tırbos)
Khmer: រនាស់ (km) (rɔnŏəh)
Korean: 갈퀴 (ko) (galkwi)
Kumyk: тырнавуч (tırnawuç)
Kyrgyz: тырмооч (ky) (tırmooc), тырмоо (ky) (tırmoo)
Ladin: restel m
Lao: ຄາດ (lo) (khāt)
Latgalian: gruobeklis
Latin: rāstellus m, rāstrum n
Latvian: grābeklis m
Lithuanian: grėblys m
Lü: ᦵᦕᦲ (ṗhoe), ᦃᦸᦉᦱᧂ (ẋoaṡaang), ᦃᦸᦊᧂᧈ (ẋoaẏang¹)
Lun Bawang: akap
Luxembourgish: Reech (lb) m
Macedonian: гребло n (greblo)
Malay: garu (ms)
Malayalam: വരണ്ടി (ml) (varaṇṭi)
Māori: rakaraka, rakuraku
Mongolian: Cyrillic: тармуур (mn) (tarmuur)
Norman: râté m (Jersey)
Norwegian: Bokmål: rive (no) m or f Nynorsk: rive f
Occitan: rastèl (oc) m
Old English: raca m
Pannonian Rusyn: граблї f pl (hrablji), грабелки f pl (hrabelki)
Persian: شن‌کش (šen-keš)
Plautdietsch: Hoakj f
Polish: grabie (pl) nvir pl
Portuguese: rastel m, rastelo (pt) m, ancinho (pt) m
Romanian: greblă (ro) f
Russian: гра́бли (ru) f pl (grábli)
Saisiyat: 'a'amar
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гра̏буље f pl, гра̏бље f pl Latin: grȁbulje (sh) f pl, grȁblje (sh) f pl
Shor: тарбаш (tarbaş)
Slovak: hrable f pl
Slovene: grablje (sl) f pl
Spanish: rastrillo (es) m, angazo m
Swahili: reki
Swedish: raka (sv) c, kratta (sv) c, räfsa (sv) c (for leaves)
Tagalog: kalaykay
Tajik: хаскашак (tg) (xaskašak)
Tarifit: tazzart f
Tatar: тырма (tt) (tırma), тырмавыч (tt) (tırmawıç)
Thai: คราด (th) (krâat)
Turkish: tırmık (tr) Ottoman Turkish: طرمیق (tırmık), طراق (tarak)
Turkmen: dyrmyk
Ukrainian: гра́блі (uk) f pl (hrábli)
Uyghur: تىرنا (tirna)
Uzbek: tirma (uz), xaskash (uz)
Vietnamese: bồ cào (vi), bừa cỏ, bù cào, cào (vi)
Walloon: rustea (wa)
Welsh: rhaca f (South), cribin f (North)
Yakut: кыраабыл (kïraabïl)
Zhuang: rauq

similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by horse or tractor

Bulgarian: бра́на (bg) f (brána)
Finnish: harava (fi), heinäharava
German: Schwader m
Serbo-Croatian: grablje (sh) f pl, grabulje (sh) f pl

Etymology 2

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The verb is partly derived[3][4] from rake (“tool with a row of pointed teeth”) (see etymology 1) and from Middle English raken (“to rake; to gather by raking; to rake away (debris); to cover with something; (figurative) to conceal, hide; to destroy”) [and other forms],[5] from Old Norse raka (“to scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *raką, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).

Cognates

The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch rāken (modern Dutch raken (“to rake”) (regional)), Middle Low German rāken, Old Danish raghæ, rakæ (modern Danish rage (“to shave”)), Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“to rake; to shave”)).[3]

The noun is derived from the verb.[6]

Verb

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rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake. She is raking the gravel path to keep it even. We raked all the leaves into a pile.
1. (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly. The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.
2. (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
3. (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate. The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face.
  - c. 1580 (date written), Philip Sidney, “(please specify the folio)”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1593, →OCLC:Pas could not stay, but over him did rake, / And crown'd the earth with his first touching crowne: [...]
  - 1835 November 30 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 286, column 2:Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, / Or waves that own no curbing hand, / How fast has brother followed brother, / From sunshine to the sunless land!
4. (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
5. (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly). Synonyms: comb, comb through, go over with a fine-tooth comb, scour
  - 1697, Virgil, “Postscript to the Reader”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 621:[...] I have added to both of them [language and poetry] in the choice of Words, and Harmony of Numbers which were wanting, [...] One is for raking in [Geoffrey] Chaucer (our Engliſh Ennius) for antiquated Words, which are never to be reviv'd, but when Sound or Significancy is wanting in the preſent Language.
  - 1724, Jonathan Swift, “On Dreams. An Imitation of Petronius.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 271:The statesman rakes the town to find a plot, / And dreams of forfeitures by treason got.
  - 2003 March, Karyn Monk, The Wedding Escape, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 96:Jack's gaze raked the room, searching for some indication that something was wrong, that someone was going to suddenly spring forward and grab her.
6. (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire. The enemy machine guns raked the roadway.
  - 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:George took the glass again and raked the vessel. "How she does pitch!" he said.
  - 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 17:51 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎[3], archived from the original on 17 October 2022:Armor-piercing shells were heading up the shell hoists, but this procedure took a few minutes, allowing the battered American flagship to reply in kind, the gunners somewhat motivated to set new records for the rate of fire as the cruiser raked the larger ship from stem to stern in response.
  1. (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
7. (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
8. To pick (a lock) with a rake.

Conjugation

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present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) rake
1st-person singular	rake	raked
2nd-person singular	rake, rakest†	raked, rakedst†
3rd-person singular	rakes, raketh†	raked
plural	rake	raked
subjunctive	rake	raked
imperative	rake	—
participles	raking	raked

† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

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muckrake
overrake
rakeable
rake and scrape
rake-and-scrape
rake in
rake it in
rake 'n' scrape
rake-'n'-scrape
rake off
rake out
rake over
rake over old coals
rake over the coals
rake together
rake up
rerake
unrake
unraked

Translations

[edit] to act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake

Arabic: يجمع الحشائش, قذائف مكثفَة, يسرح الشعر\الحشائش
Assamese: লোৰোক (lürük)
Bulgarian: събирам с гребло (sǎbiram s greblo)
Catalan: rampinar (ca)
Chinese: Mandarin: 耙 (zh) (pá)
Czech: hrabat (cs)
Dutch: rakelen (nl), gritselen, harken (nl)
Esperanto: rasti
Estonian: rehitsema
Finnish: haravoida (fi)
French: ratisser (fr)
Galician: anciñar (gl), angazar (gl)
Georgian: მოფოცხვა (mopocxva)
German: rechen (de), harken (de)
Greek: τσουγκρανίζω (el) (tsougkranízo)
Hungarian: gereblyéz (hu), összegereblyéz (hu)
Ingrian: haravoija
Italian: rastrellare (it)
Korean: 갈퀴다 (galkwida)
Ladin: restlé
Latgalian: kast
Latvian: grābt
Lithuanian: grėbti
Māori: rakaraka, rakuraku
Polish: grabić (pl), zgarniać, zgrabić
Portuguese: rastelar
Romanian: grebla (ro)
Russian: сгребать (ru) (sgrebatʹ), собирать (ru) (sobiratʹ)
Slovene: grabiti (sl)
Spanish: rastrillar (es)
Swedish: raka (sv), kratta (sv), räfsa (sv)
Tày: bóp
Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: طرمیقلامق (tırmıklamak), طرامق (taramak)
Vietnamese: bừa (vi)
Yakut: харбаа (qarbaa)
Zhuang: rauq

to drag or pull in a certain direction

Finnish: vetää (fi), raahata (fi)

to claw at; to scrape, to scratch — see also scrape,‎ scratch

Finnish: raapia (fi)

to bring up or uncover (something)

Finnish: tuoda ilmi, paljastaa (fi)

to search through (thoroughly)

Bulgarian: ровя се (rovja se)
Dutch: uitkammen (nl)
Finnish: käydä läpi, koluta (fi), syynätä tarkkaan; haravoida (fi) (esp. of a large area)
French: fouiller (fr), passer au peigne fin (fr)
Galician: buscar (gl)
German: durchkämmen (de)
Hungarian: átfésül (hu), átkutat (hu), kutat (hu)
Italian: rastrellare (it), ispezionare (it)
Korean: 훑다 (ko) (hulda)
Polish: przeczesywać (pl)
Portuguese: varrer (pt)
Russian: прочёсывать (ru) impf (pročósyvatʹ), прочеса́ть (ru) pf (pročesátʹ)
Swedish: finkamma (sv), raka (sv), rafsa (sv)

to move across (something) with a long side-to-side motion

Finnish: kulkea edestakaisin (intransitive), liikuttaa edestakaisin (transitive)

to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion

Finnish: tulittaa edestakaisin, pippuroida (fi)
French: arroser (fr)
Italian: mitragliare (it)
Polish: ostrzeliwać
Swedish: peppra (sv)

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

The act of raking.
Something that is raked.
1. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
2. (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty. Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.

Translations

[edit] act of raking

Czech: hrabání (cs) n
Finnish: haravointi (fi)

something that is raked

Czech: hrabanka f

share of profits, etc., especially if obtained illegally

Finnish: osuus (fi)

scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game

Finnish: palkkio (fi)

a lot, plenty — see plenty

Etymology 3

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From Middle English rake, rakke (“pass, path, track; type of fencing thrust; pasture land (?)”),[7] and then partly:[8]

probably from Old English racu (“bed of a stream; path; account, narrative; explanation; argument, reasoning; reason”) (compare Old English hrace, hraca, hracu (“gorge”)), from Proto-Germanic *rakō (“path, track; course, direction; an unfolding, unwinding; account, narrative; argument, reasoning”) [and other forms], from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”); and
from Old Norse rák (“strip; stripe; furrow; small mountain ravine”), further etymology uncertain but probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rakō, as above.

Cognates

The English word is cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, stripe; notch in a rock; vein in stone or wood”), Norwegian råk (“channel (in ice); cow path; trail”), Norwegian Nynorsk råk (“channel (in ice); cow path; trail; furrow; stripe”), Swedish råk (“crack or channel in ice; river valley”); and probably cognate with Old Danish rag (modern Danish rag (“stiff; taut”) (regional)), Old Norse rakr (“straight”), Swedish rak (“straight”).[8]

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

(Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
(mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
(British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons. Synonym: consist The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
- 1959 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →OCLC, page 222:On February 21 Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63635 passed through Manchester (Victoria) heading in the Rochdale direction with a rake of empty wagons.
(Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).

Translations

[edit] narrow and steep path or route up a hillside

Finnish: polku (fi)
Macedonian: па́тека m (páteka)

set of coupled rail vehicles

Bulgarian: композиция (bg) f (kompozicija)
Finnish: jono (fi)
French: rame (fr) f
German: Wagenzug m
Hungarian: szerelvény (hu)
Italian: convoglio (it) m
Polish: skład (pl) m
Swedish: vagnsätt n

puffer that emits a stream of spaceships

Finnish: tehdas (fi)

Verb

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rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)

Etymology 4

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The verb is derived from Middle English raken (“to go, proceed; to move quickly, hasten, rush; to roam, wander”) [and other forms], from Old English racian (“to go forward, move, run; to hasten; to take a course or direction; to control, direct, govern, rule”),[9] from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn (“to take a course or direction; to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; to direct oneself”).

Cognates

The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch rāken (“to acquire; to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”) (modern Dutch raken (“to hit (not miss); to touch; to become”)), Middle Low German rāken, rōken (“to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”), Old High German rahhōn (“to narrate, speak”), and probably Swedish raka (“to rush off”).[10]

The noun is derived from the verb.[11]

Verb

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rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

(intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
(intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

(Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.

Alternative forms

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raik

Etymology 5

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A coble (flat-bottomed fishing boat) in Northumberland, England, UK. The transom (flat part of the stern) of the boat has been raked (verb sense 2.1) – it slants forward and extends beyond the keel.

A chart showing the correct rakes (noun sense 2) or rake angles for various cutting tools.[n 1]

The origin of the verb is uncertain.[12] The noun is probably derived from the verb.[13]

possibly related terms

German ragen (“to rise up out of; to jut or stick out”), from Middle High German ragen (compare Middle Dutch rāgen, Middle Low German rāgen), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erǵʰ- (“to go up, rise”); and
Middle Dutch rāken (“to acquire; to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”) (modern Dutch raken (“to hit (not miss); to touch; to become”)), Middle Low German rāken, rōken (“to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”), from Proto-Germanic *rakōną (“to take a course or direction; to run”) (see further at etymology 4).

Verb

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rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

(ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction. Synonym: slope A mast rakes aft.
(nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
1. (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
2. (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.

Translations

[edit] to incline (something) from a perpendicular direction

Bulgarian: наклонявам (bg) (naklonjavam)
Finnish: kallistaa (fi) (transitive), kallistua (fi) (intransitive)
Hungarian: dől (hu), lejt (hu)
Latin: inclino (la)
Russian: наклонить (ru) pf (naklonitʹ), отклонить (ru) pf (otklonitʹ)

to provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake

Finnish: kallistaa (fi)

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
(specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
(geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
(nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
1. A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
2. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
(roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

Translations

[edit] divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular — see also slant,‎ slope

Bulgarian: наклон (bg) m (naklon)
Finnish: kallistuma (fi), kaltevuus (fi)
Hungarian: dőlés (hu), dőlésszög (hu)
Latin: inclinatitas f
Macedonian: на́клон m (náklon)
Russian: уклон (ru) m (uklon), наклон (ru) m (naklon)

rake angle — see also rake angle

Finnish: työstökulma
French: angle de chasse m, dépouille (fr)

(geology) direction of slip

Estonian: kalle
Finnish: siirroksen suunta

slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel

Finnish: kaltevuus (fi)

slant of some other part of a watercraft away from the perpendicular

Finnish: kallistus (fi)

sloped edge of a roof

Finnish: pääty (fi)
Italian: bordo spiovente m

Etymology 6

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The noun is a clipping of rakehell (“(archaic) lewd or wanton person, debauchee, rake”),[14] from to rake (out) hell (“to search through hell thoroughly”), in the sense of a person so evil or immoral that they cannot be found in hell even after an extensive search: see rake (“to search through (thoroughly)”).

The verb is derived from the noun.[15]

Noun

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rake (plural rakes)

A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct. Synonyms: roué; see also Thesaurus:libertine
- 1711 March 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, March 16, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 14; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 151:We have now and then rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of rakes. The misfortune of the thing is, that people dress themselves in what they have a mind to be, and not what they are fit for.The spelling has been modernized.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, “Address to the Sons of Burns after Visiting Their Father’s Grave, Aug. 14th, 1803”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 30:For honest men delight will take, / To shew you favour for his sake, / Will flatter you; and Fool and Rake / Your steps pursue: / And of your Father's name will make / A snare for you.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:"He was a big old rake, full of marks and scars, and he had only an ear and a half."
- 2009, The Onion, 2:27 from the start, in Bad Boy Fencing Star Implicated In Yet Another Jewel Heist‎[4], spoken by Reggie Greengrass (Beau Baxtor):I have no choice but to take up the foil once again and vanquish this rake.
- 2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Violet Bridgerton:I am fully subscribed to the belief that reformed rakes make the very best of husbands.

Derived terms

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rakehood
rakery
rakish
raky

Translations

[edit] person who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct

Bulgarian: женкар (bg) m (ženkar), донжуан (bg) m (donžuan)
Danish: fusentast (da)
Dutch: losbol (nl) m
Finnish: pelimies (fi), elostelija (fi)
French: fumiste (fr) m
German: Lebemann (de) m, Windhund (de) m
Hungarian: élvhajhász (hu), kujon (hu)
Italian: buono a nulla m, dissoluto (it) m, scapestrato (it), sciagurato (it) m
Latin: asōtus m
Macedonian: ра́звратник m (rázvratnik)
Portuguese: libertino (pt) m
Spanish: calavera (es)
Vietnamese: kẻ/người phóng đãng

Verb

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rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

(intransitive, dated, rare) To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:harlotize
- 1758, William Shenstone, Epilogue to Cleone:When women hid their necks , and veil'd their faces , Nor romp'd , nor raked , nor stared at public places

Notes

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^ From “Grinding and Setting Lathe and Planer Cutting Tools”, in Canadian Machinery and Manufacturing News, volume XVIII, number 1, Toronto, Ont.: MacLean Publishing Company, 5 July 1917, →OCLC, page 21.
^ From the collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, England, U.K.

References

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^ “rāke, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ “rake, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
↑ 3.0 3.1 “rake, v.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
^ “rake1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rāken, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ “rake, n.8”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rāke, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
↑ 8.0 8.1 “rake, n.3”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake4, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rāken, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ “rake, v.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
^ “rake, n.4”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
^ “rake, v.3”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake3, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rake, n.6”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake3, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rake, n.7”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rake2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “rake, v.4”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008.

Anagrams

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Kera, Kear, Akre, aker, KERA, reak, arke