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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
3. noun. A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
4. transitive verb. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive 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.
7. transitive verb. To search through; to scour; to ransack.
8. transitive verb. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
9. transitive 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.
10. intransitive verb. To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
11. intransitive verb. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
12. noun. The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
13. noun. the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
14. intransitive verb. To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
15. noun. A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
16. intransitive verb. To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
17. intransitive verb. To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
18. noun. a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
19. noun. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

    "the roof had a steep pitch"

    Synonyms: pitch, slant

20. noun. a dissolute man in fashionable society

    Synonyms: blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue

21. verb. scrape gently

    "graze the skin"

    Synonyms: crease, graze

22. verb. gather with a rake

    "rake leaves"

23. verb. level or smooth with a rake

    "rake gravel"

24. verb. move through with or as if with a rake

    "She raked her fingers through her hair"

25. verb. examine hastily

    "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

    Synonyms: scan, skim

26. verb. sweep the length of

    "The gunfire raked the coast"

Synonyms

pitch, slant, blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue, crease, graze, scan, skim

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rake:

aker, akre, kera, reak

Common word forms

raked, raker, rakes, rakees, rakely, raking, rakeful

Words from these letters

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