rake

v. collect, gather together; cause to slant, cause to slope

n. gardening tool with a comb-like end; slope, slant, incline

Rake may refer to:Rake (tool), a long-handled tool with tines.Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game.The "rake", the artificial slope of a  theatre stage.Rake (character), a man habituated to immoral conduct. An archaic term most often found in historical romance novels.Rake receiver, a radio receiver.Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language.Rake (angle), various angles in bicycle and motorcycle geometry.Rake, also castor angle, the angle between the steering axis and the vertical on a motorcycle.Rake (Building term), the slope of the roof at the end of a gable.Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships.A guitar-playing method involving muted notes.
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Noun
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
(synonym) profligate, rip, blood, roue
(hypernym) libertine, debauchee, rounder
2. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"
(synonym) pitch, slant
(hypernym) gradient, slope
3. a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
(hypernym) tool
(hyponym) croupier's rake
(part-meronym) rake handle
Verb
1. move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"
(hypernym) move, displace
2. level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"
(hypernym) smooth, smoothen
3. sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast"
(hypernym) sweep
(hyponym) enfilade
4. examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
(synonym) scan, skim, glance over, run down
(hypernym) examine, see
5. gather with a rake; "rake leaves"
(hypernym) gather, garner, collect, pull together
(entail) scrape, grate
(see-also) rake off
6. scrape gently; "graze the skin"
(synonym) graze, crease
(hypernym) brush
(hyponym) shave

adj. direct, straight

(n.)
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
  

(n.)
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
  

(n.)
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
  

(n.)
The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
  

(v. i.)
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
  

(v. i.)
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
  

(v. i.)
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
  

(v. i.)
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
  

(v. i.)
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
  

(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.
  

(v. t.)
To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
  

(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.
  

(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.
  

(v. t.)
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
  

(v. t.)
To search through; to scour; to ransack.