a hand implement consisting of a row of teeth set in a headpiece attached to a long shaft and used for gathering hay, straw, leaves, etc, or for smoothing loose earth

any of several mechanical farm implements equipped with rows of teeth or rotating wheels mounted with tines and used to gather hay, straw, etc

any of various implements similar in shape or function, such as a tool for drawing out ashes from a furnace

the act of raking

a line of wagons coupled together as one unit, used on railways

to scrape, gather, or remove (leaves, refuse, etc) with or as if with a rake

to level or prepare (a surface, such as a flower bed) with a rake or similar implement

to clear (ashes, clinker, etc) from (a fire or furnace)

to gather (items or people) with difficulty, as from a scattered area or limited supply

to search or examine carefully

to scrape or graze

to direct (gunfire) along the length of (a target)

to sweep (one's eyes) along the length of (something); scan

a dissolute man, esp one in fashionable society; roué

to incline from the vertical by a perceptible degree, esp (of a ship's mast or funnel) towards the stern

to construct with a backward slope

the degree to which an object, such as a ship's mast, inclines from the perpendicular, esp towards the stern

the slope of a stage from the back towards the footlights

the angle between the working face of a cutting tool and a plane perpendicular tothe surface of the workpiece

a slanting ledge running across a crag in the Lake District

(of gun dogs or hounds) to hunt with the nose to the ground