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▸ noun:  (agriculture, horticulture) 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.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
▸ noun:  (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
▸ verb:  To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
▸ verb:  (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
▸ verb:  (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
▸ verb:  To pick (a lock) with a rake.
▸ noun:  The act of raking.
▸ noun:  Something that is raked.
▸ noun:  A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
▸ noun:  (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
▸ noun:  (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
▸ noun:  (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
▸ noun:  (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
▸ noun:  (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
▸ verb:  (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
▸ noun:  A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
▸ noun:  (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
▸ noun:  (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
▸ noun:  (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
▸ noun:  A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
▸ noun:  A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
▸ noun:  (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
▸ noun:  A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, dated, rare) To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A village in Rogate parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8027).
▸ noun:  A small town in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States, named after a pioneer citizen.
▸ noun:  (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”) [(also figurative) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.]
▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”) [(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.]

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