Dictionary Entry
rake
rake is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
- 3noun
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
- 4transitive verb
To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7transitive verb
To search through; to scour; to ransack.
- 8transitive verb
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
- 9transitive verb
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.
- 10intransitive verb
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
- 11intransitive verb
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
- 12noun
The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
- 13noun
the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
- 14intransitive verb
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
- 15noun
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
- 16intransitive verb
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
- 17intransitive verb
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
- 18noun
a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- 19noun
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
"the roof had a steep pitch"
- 20noun
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonyms
- 21verb
scrape gently
"graze the skin"
- 22verb
gather with a rake
"rake leaves"
- 23verb
level or smooth with a rake
"rake gravel"
- 24verb
move through with or as if with a rake
"She raked her fingers through her hair"
- 25verb
examine hastily
"She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
- 26verb
sweep the length of
"The gunfire raked the coast"
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