Meaning of rake | Babel Free

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1. 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.
2. 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
3. The act of raking.
4. A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
   Northern-England, also, figuratively
5. Rate of progress; pace, speed.
   Scotland
6. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
7. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
8. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
9. A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
   broadly
10. A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
    broadly
11. A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes. A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table. 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
12. Something that is raked.
13. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
14. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
15. To revive or bring to light; uncover: rake up old gossip.
16. 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).
    specifically
17. A village in Rogate parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8027).
    countable, uncountable
18. 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.
    broadly
19. A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table
20. A lot, plenty.
    Ireland, Scotland, slang
21. A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
    British, Scotland
22. To reprimand severely.
23. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
24. A small town in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States, named after a pioneer citizen.
    countable, uncountable
25. A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
26. 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
27. 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”).
    Midlands, Northern-England, alt-of, alternative
28. A usually well-to-do man who is dissolute or promiscuous.
29. Senses relating to watercraft.
30. 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.
31. A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves
32. To slant or cause to incline from the perpendicular: propeller blades that rake backward from the shaft; rake a ship's mast.
33. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
34. a dissolute or profligate and usu. licentious man; roué; libertine.
35. The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
36. An immoral or licentious person:libertine, profligate, wanton.
37. To depart or cause to depart from true vertical or horizontal:cant, heel, incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tilt, tip.
38. Deviation from a particular direction:cant, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tilt, tip.
39. to make a thorough search. I'm raking through these boxes of old clothes. deursoek يقومُ بِبَحْثٍ شامِل търся старателно esquadrinhar prohrabat durchstöbern lede igennem σκαλίζω, ψάχνω σχολαστικά registrar, buscar en; escudriñar tuhnima, läbi kammima به دقت بررسی کردن haravoida fouiller dans לְחַטֵט, לִנבוֹר तलाश करना prekopavati átfésül memeriksa, membongkar leita, rannsaka, fara í gegnum rovistare in くまなく探す 샅샅이 찾다 apieškoti, naršyti rakņāties; pārmeklēt menggeledah doorzoeken gjennomsøke/-r...
40. to find out and tell or remind people about (something, usually something unpleasant that would be better forgotten). ophaal يُذَكِّر بِشَيء يُفَضَّل نِسْيانُه хокам remexer em vyhrabat aufrühren rippe op i βγάζω στη φόρα, ανασκαλεύω desenterrar, remover, sacar a relucir minevikus urgitsema کاشف به عمل آوردن؛ اطلاعات به دست آوردن kaivaa esiin attiser לְהַזכִּיר कठिनाई से खोजना, गड़े-मुर्दे उखाड़ना iznositi stare događaje előkotor memperingatkan draga fram í dagsljósið rivangare あばき立てる 생각나게 하다...
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Examples

“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.”

“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).”

“That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.”

“The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.”

“Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.”

“The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“"He was a big old rake, full of marks and scars, and he had only an ear and a half."”

“I have no choice but to take up the foil once again and vanquish this rake.”

“I am fully subscribed to the belief that reformed rakes make the very best of husbands.”

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