Rake is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAKE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to gather with a toothed bar on a handle
• draw together with a rake or similar implement
• make (ground) smooth with a rake
• draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement
• sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light
• move across something with a long sweeping movement
• search or rummage through something
• set (something) at a sloping angle
• To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
• 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.
• 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.
• To search through; to scour; to ransack.
• To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
• 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.
• To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
• To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
• To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
• To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
• To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
• move through with or as if with a rake
• level or smooth with a rake
• sweep the length of
• examine hastily
• gather with a rake
• scrape gently
• gather or smooth with a rake
• scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement
• (of a ship's mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern
• (of a ship's bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel.
NOUN:
• an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
• an implement similar to a rake used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table.
• an act of raking
• a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits
• the angle at which a thing slopes
• the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.
• a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together
• a herd of colts.
• tool used for smoothing earth or gathering leaves, hay, etc
• 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.
• A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
• A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
• The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
• the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
• A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
• a dissolute man in fashionable society
• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
• a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to gather with a toothed implement

Words related to RAKE

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Words that contain RAKE

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How to use RAKE in a sentence

• Leopoldine did her share too, not to speak of having a machine for a horse to rake.
• That fellow, who is the veriest rake among us, is always preaching.
• All around it were those hideous signs of mining operations which make a country rich in metals look as though the devil had walked over it, dragging behind him an enormous rake.
• Before long he was amusing himself by thinking how it might have gone with her if she had him for her counsellor instead of a gross and thoughtless rake like Marmaduke.
• Without moving he began to rake the cabin with his eyes, wall to wall, corner to corner.
• Later in the summer he even helped Hughie rake the hay and had a song for that.
• They cannot rake together enough coin to purchase the adulterated stuff at ten times the price they had paid for better liquor before the law went into effect.
• To use this oven, build a fire in it and when the oven is hot, rake out the coals and put in your bread or meat on flat stones.
• The windows, luckily, were too narrow for them to swarm through, and when Jim and Buck could no longer rake the flying crowd, they ran to the door to help their young leader.
• By an ingenious lever arrangement the driver is enabled to hold the rake to its work by the pressure of his foot, and also readily to discharge the hay gathered.
• The parents rake the sea, and find an oak and a fir and other things, but not their daughter.
• Now he saw that it was my purpose to rake this Halakazi fire with another hand than his, and to save his hand from the burning, and he thanked me.
• His Letter gives us the Picture of a converted Rake.
• The incident passed, but I began to have fears that the reformed rake might prove a greater danger than ever.
• What a disadvantage a man lies under, who has been once a rake! But I am so generally with Mrs.
• They were now out of range of the guns, which could not be turned at such an angle as to rake them.
• The meeting with a rake determined the life of this girl.
• It is not necessary, at least in the present place, that I should go farther, and rake up all the objections, that may be urged upon this subject.
• Then he went to live on the wild mountain Fu-ling Shan, where, armed with an iron rake, he first robbed and then ate the travellers who passed through that region.
• I know how to come round that rake of a des Lupeaulx, who will sign your patent.

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