Raking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
• 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:
• the act of raking
• 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.
• (in rugby) offence of scraping an opponent with the studs
• The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
• A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to gather with a toothed implement
• present participle of rake

Words related to RAKING

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Words that contain RAKING

braking14 craking14 rakings12 beraking15 brakings15 unraking13 unbraking16 moonraking17 muckraking23 overraking18 aerobraking18 moonrakings18 muckrakings24 overbraking21 aerobrakings19

How to use RAKING in a sentence

• Boys are raking them in the streets, if only for the pleasure of dealing with such clean crisp substances.
• Then, with the withering fire raking them even as they faltered, the lines broke.
• Dick rushed toward the hut with all his speed, raking the strings more violently at every jump, till they rang again.
• These phenomena could be intensified in picturesqueness, the boys discovered, by rocking the cage a little, tapping it with a hammer, or raking the bars with a stick.
• By such drastic methods space was cleared for the guns in the Belgian forts, and to the advancing besiegers no protection would be offered from the raking fire.
• That brave officer, Captain Riou, was killed by a raking shot, when the Amazon showed her stern to the Trekroner.
• Men who are kept by a commonplace-book go about raking everywhere for glittering scraps, which they carry home to be sorted in their aesthetic junk-shop.
• And each patch becomes a new centre of infection which is spread by digging or raking.
• Then, when all his other tricks had failed, he started in a run for the center post of the corral, with the intention of raking me off.
• We do not wish to enumerate these descriptive terms and phrases, for that would be raking up old scores.
• He was out there the other morning raking up the leaves and that is all he will have to do until Christmas time.
• While the nurses and helpers were trying to rescue the patients, the bloody Potsdam vultures flew back and forth three times over the place, raking it with machine guns.
• Ross reeled back and fell, his left hand raking down the controls as he went.
• If the loss of leaves is likely to be considerable when raking the hay, raking should be deferred until the influence of evening dews begins to be felt.
• This was known as a push machine with a straight cutter, the operator walking by the side of the machine and raking the grain from the platform.
• The clover was well cut, and deposited in proper sized heaps, and no raking required, further than to remove the heaps of cut clover from the track of the machine.
• If you bury them in the garden, they come up at the second raking.
• At any second, a raking volley might burst from the dunes.
• In a few minutes he was again at his gun, and assisted in pouring the first raking broadside into our opponents stern.
• A big bough hit me, raking the withers of my horse, and I rolled off headlong in a lot of bushes.
• Once, indeed, I found him cleaning my storm boots! To find him thus humbly devoted to my service after the raking I had given him dulled the edge of my anger.
• If you were any other woman, I should say that you felt in the mood for a good cry and so were raking up any old grievance for a pretext.
• She found Dan, the gardener, raking up leaves in the back garden.
• There is what there is by the raking of the felt hats.
• That very afternoon his exhausted troops storm the fort, and the night beholds him the master of the outer works, and with his guns raking the innermost fortifications.

Similar words containing RAK without suffix ing

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