- an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
- any of various implements having a similar form, as a croupier's implement for gathering in money on a gaming table.
- to gather, draw, or remove with a rake: to rake dead leaves from a lawn.
- to clear, smooth, or prepare with a rake: to rake a garden bed.
- to clear (a fire, embers, etc.) by stirring with a poker or the like.
- to gather or collect abundantly (usually followed by in): He marketed his invention and has been raking in money ever since.
- to bring to light, usually for discreditable reasons (usually followed by up): to rake up an old scandal.
- to search thoroughly through: They raked the apartment for the missing jewels.
- to scrape; scratch: The sword's tip raked his face lightly.
- to scoop out (a masonry joint) to a given depth while the mortar is still green.
- to fire guns along the length of (a position, body of troops, ship, etc.):Gunfire from a Japanese cruiser raked the ship’s bridge.
- to sweep (a place or thing) with the eyes or a light, typically in search of something: He raked the horizon with his gaze.
- to sweep or pass over:The high beams of a passing car raked the darkened house fronts. Winds raked the plains. She lingered at an Italian sports car, her eyes raking the length of it.
- to use a rake: The gardener raked along the border of the garden.
- to search with a sweeping motion: His gaze raked over the room.
- to scrape; search: She frantically raked through her belongings.
- a dissolute or immoral person, especially a man who indulges in vices or lacks sexual restraint.
- to incline from the vertical, as a mast, or from the horizontal.
- to cause (something) to incline from the vertical or the horizontal.
- inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- a board or molding placed along the sloping sides of a frame gable to cover the ends of the siding.
- the angle measured between the tip edge of an aircraft or missile wing or other lifting surface and the plane of symmetry.
- the angle between the cutting face of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface of the work at the cutting point.
- Hunting.
- (of a hawk) to fly after game.
- (of a dog) to hunt with the nose close to the ground instead of in the wind.
- to go or proceed, especially with speed.
- a hand implement consisting of a row of teeth set in a headpiece attached to a long shaft and used for gathering hay, straw, leaves, etc, or for smoothing loose earth
- any of several mechanical farm implements equipped with rows of teeth or rotating wheels mounted with tines and used to gather hay, straw, etc
- any of various implements similar in shape or function, such as a tool for drawing out ashes from a furnace
- the act of raking
- a line of wagons coupled together as one unit, used on railways
- to scrape, gather, or remove (leaves, refuse, etc) with or as if with a rake
- to level or prepare (a surface, such as a flower bed) with a rake or similar implement
- to clear (ashes, clinker, etc) from (a fire or furnace)
- to gather (items or people) with difficulty, as from a scattered area or limited supply
- to search or examine carefully
- to scrape or graze
- to direct (gunfire) along the length of (a target)
- to sweep (one's eyes) along the length of (something); scan
- a dissolute man, esp one in fashionable society; roué
- to incline from the vertical by a perceptible degree, esp (of a ship's mast or funnel) towards the stern
- to construct with a backward slope
- the degree to which an object, such as a ship's mast, inclines from the perpendicular, esp towards the stern
- the slope of a stage from the back towards the footlights
- aeronautics
- the angle between the wings of an aircraft and the line of symmetry of the aircraft
- the angle between the line joining the centroids of the section of a propeller blade and a line perpendicular to the axis
- the angle between the working face of a cutting tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece
- a slanting ledge running across a crag in the Lake District
- (of gun dogs or hounds) to hunt with the nose to the ground
- (of hawks)
- to pursue quarry in full flight
- to fly wide of the quarry, esp beyond the control of the falconer