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What does rake mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rake? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
  2. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
  3. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  4. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
  5. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  6. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
  7. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
Verb
  1. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
  2. To search thoroughly.
  3. To spray with gunfire.
  4. To claw at; to scratch.
  5. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
  6. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Noun
  1. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
  2. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
  3. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct
  3. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
Noun
Verb
  1. (Britain, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
  2. (Britain, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Noun
  1. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
  2. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
Verb
  1. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.
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