hell-raken.1
/ˈhɛlreɪk/, U.S. /ˈhɛlˌreɪk/ = hell-raker n.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
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riotor1389
rioterc1440
palliard1484
skyrgalliarda1529
rakehellc1560
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rakeshame1598
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pavement-beater1611
rakell1622
ranter1652
huzza1660
whorehopper1664
profligate1679
rakehellonian1692
rake1693
buck1725
blood1749
gay blade1750
have-at-alla1761
rakehellyc1768
hell-rake?1774
randan1779
rip1781
roué1781
hell-raker1816
tiger1827
raver1960
dog1994
?1774 R. Sanders Lucubrations Gaffer Graybeard I. xviii. 148 Nobody could keep you from gadding after all the hell-rakes of the town.
1851 R. St. Clair Jones Brothers of Valencia iii. ii. 37 Thou Hell-rake.
1859 R. Piddington Last of Cavaliers III. 94 Sot and hellrake as he always was.
1931 A. C. Train Puritan's Progress xvii. 399 If enough of a hell rake, he might drop into his club on the way back to supper.
1984 J. W. Crawford Early Shakespearean Actresses 46 Her range of parts reached from Ophelia to the hoydens and hell-rakes of Restoration comedy.
2006 Newsweek (Nexis) 6 Nov. (Theater section) 68 [He] makes Ahrab a crepuscular hellrake, running on fumes at 90 miles an hour.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hell-raken.2
/ˈhɛlreɪk/, U.S. /ˈhɛlˌreɪk/, Welsh English /ˈhɛlreːk/ English regional (southern and midlands) and Welsh English.
A large rake with curved teeth, used typically for gathering loose hay.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > hay-rake
hay-crome1599
wain-rakea1642
hay-rake1725
hell-rake1794
1794 R. F. Greville Diary 28 Aug. (1930) 309 His M. order'd Me to call at Farmer Sherring's where I order'd two of those Broad Rakes called Hell Rakes.
1851 Notes & Queries 4 Oct. 260/2 In this district (the Cotswolds) we generally suppose the derivation to be from the rake being an ell in width. In the vale, however (i.e. about Tewkesbury) they are called heel-rakes, from their being drawn at the heel of the person using them, instead of being used in front, as rakes ordinarily are.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Ell-rake Theer'll be mighty little lef' fur the laisers; they'n bin draggin' that ell-rake ever sence daylight.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (E.D.S.) Ell-rake, eller-rake.
1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 43 Hell rake also heel rake, a large rake with curved iron teeth used to clear the field at harvest after the greater part of the crop has been gathered.
1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 160/1 Heel-rake, a large rake for turning hay, having long, curved teeth, and used by hand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hell-rakev.
/ˈhɛlreɪk/, U.S. /ˈhɛlˌreɪk/ rare.
transitive. To treat wildly or destructively; to devastate; to massacre.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)
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fordoc900
awesteeOE
westeeOE
losec950
harrowc1000
destroyc1230
wastec1275
ravishc1325
to lie waste1338
exilea1382
to-wastea1382
unronea1400
desolatea1425
vast1434
fruster?a1513
to lay waste1535
wipe1535
devast1537
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dispopulate1588
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ravage1602
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to make stroy of1682
to lay in ashes1711
untown1783
hell-rake1830
uncity1850
1830 J. Banim Denounced I. 117 Let go to canter it, and tatter it, and hell-rake it about the country.
1915 J. E. Flecker Old Ships 5 The pirate Genoese Hell-raked them till they rolled Blood, water, fruit and corpses up the hold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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