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   rake

   /reɪk/

   noun

   • 1. 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: "giving the lawn a rake"

   verb

   • 1. draw together with a rake or similar implement: "I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass" Similar scrape up/togethercollectgather
   • ▪ make (ground) smooth with a rake: "in the early morning squads of workers rake the beach" Similar smoothsmooth outleveleven outflattencomb
   • 2. scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement: "her fingers raked Bill's face" Similar scratchlaceratescraperaspgrazeabradegratebarktechnical:excoriate
   • ▪ draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement: "she raked a comb through her hair" Similar dragpullscrapedrawtug
   • ▪ sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light: "the road was raked with machine-gun fire" Similar sweepenfiladepepperstrafearchaic:cannonadefusillade
   • ▪ move across something with a long sweeping movement: "his steady gaze raked over the two men" Similar searchscanlook around/round/oversurveystudyinspectscourscrutinizeexamineexploreinformal:scope
   • ▪ search or rummage through something: "he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note" Similar rummagesearchhuntsiftrifleransackcombturn upside downscourgo through with a fine-tooth comb

   Word Origin Old Englishraca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. raker noun

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