rake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
gambling
games
government
horticulture
lifestyle
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
transport
war
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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: rakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: rakest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: rakedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: rake
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: raking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
examples: She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
We raked all the leaves into a pile.
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake, / And crown'd the earth with his first touching crowne: [...]
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!
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: [...] 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.
The statesman rakes the town to find a plot, / And dreams of forfeitures by treason got.
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.
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: also
ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: The enemy machine guns raked the roadway.
George took the glass again and raked the vessel. "How she does pitch!" he said.
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.
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: also
ambitransitive
figuratively
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
Northern-England
Scotland
also
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
pos: verb
Derived words: cavex rake
clam rake
de-thatching rake
dethatching rake
fire rake
grass rake
hay rake
hayrake
hell-rake
horserake
lawn rake
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
top rake
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:
lang: Arabic
word: يجمع الحشائش
lang: Arabic
word: قذائف مكثفَة
lang: Arabic
word: يسرح الشعر\الحشائش
lang: Assamese
word: লোৰোক
roman: lürük
lang: Bulgarian
word: събирам с гребло
roman: sǎbiram s greblo
lang: Catalan
word: rampinar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 耙
roman: pá
lang: Czech
word: hrabat
lang: Dutch
word: rakelen
lang: Dutch
word: gritselen
lang: Dutch
word: harken
lang: Esperanto
word: rasti
lang: Estonian
word: rehitsema
lang: Finnish
word: haravoida
lang: French
word: ratisser
lang: Galician
word: anciñar
lang: Galician
word: angazar
lang: Georgian
word: მოფოცხვა
roman: mopocxva
lang: German
word: rechen
lang: German
word: harken
lang: Greek
word: τσουγκρανίζω
roman: tsougkranízo
lang: Hungarian
word: gereblyéz
lang: Hungarian
word: összegereblyéz
lang: Ingrian
word: haravoija
lang: Italian
word: rastrellare
lang: Korean
word: 갈퀴다
roman: galkwida
lang: Ladin
word: restlé
lang: Latgalian
word: kast
lang: Latvian
word: grābt
lang: Lithuanian
word: grėbti
lang: Māori
word: rakaraka
lang: Māori
word: rakuraku
lang: Polish
word: grabić
lang: Polish
word: zgarniać
lang: Polish
word: zgrabić
lang: Portuguese
word: rastelar
lang: Romanian
word: grebla
lang: Russian
word: сгребать
roman: sgrebatʹ
lang: Russian
word: собирать
roman: sobiratʹ
lang: Slovene
word: grabiti
lang: Spanish
word: rastrillar
lang: Swedish
word: raka
lang: Swedish
word: kratta
lang: Swedish
word: räfsa
lang: Tày
word: bóp
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طرمیقلامق
roman: tırmıklamak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طرامق
roman: taramak
lang: Vietnamese
word: bừa
lang: Yakut
word: харбаа
roman: qarbaa
lang: Zhuang
word: rauq
lang: Finnish
word: kulkea edestakaisin
lang: Finnish
word: liikuttaa edestakaisin
lang: Finnish
word: tulittaa edestakaisin
lang: Finnish
word: pippuroida
lang: French
word: arroser
lang: Italian
word: mitragliare
lang: Polish
word: ostrzeliwać
lang: Swedish
word: peppra