rake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: raik
Forms: form: rakes
Etymology: From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), 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”)).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: word: horserake
english: horse-drawn rake
translation: horse-drawn rake
glosses: 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.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: 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.
glosses: A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
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.
examples: text: 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).
ref: 1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.
ref: 2003 August 19, Ilmari Karonen, “Inquiries about Conway's game of life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.
ref: 2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
Derived terms: word: cavex rake
word: clam rake
word: de-thatching rake
word: dethatching rake
word: fire rake
word: grass rake
word: hayrake
word: hay rake
word: hell-rake
word: horserake
word: lawn rake
word: rake receiver
word: rake-stepping
word: roof rake
word: snake rake
word: spring rake
word: step on a rake
word: stubble rake
word: thatcher's rake
word: thatching rake
word: thatch rake
word: thatch-rake
word: thin as a rake
word: top rake