rakenoun [ C ]
uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/rake noun [ C ] (TOOL)
a garden tool with a long handle and long, pointed metal parts sticking out in a row at the bottom, used for making the earth level or for collecting leaves, etc.
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Gardening tools
- clippers
- edger
- hedge trimmers
- hoe
- hose
- hover mower
- lawnmower
- motor mower
- mower
- rose
- scythe
- secateurs
- sprayer
- sprinkler
- Strimmer
- trowel
- watering can
- Weed Whacker
- wheelbarrow
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rake noun [ C ] (SLOPE)
a slope:
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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
- angle
- askew
- bank
- cocked
- cockeyed
- fall away
- obliquely
- pitch
- pitched
- raked
- roll
- shelve
- skew
- slanted
- slope
- steep
- steepen
- tilt
- tip (sth/sb) over
- yaw
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rake noun [ C ] (MAN)
old-fashioned a man, especially one who is rich or with a high social position, who lives in an immoral way, especially having sex with a lot of women
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Unpleasant men
- badass
- blackguard
- blighter
- bounder
- bovver boy
- caveman
- creep
- dog
- git
- lager lout
- love rat
- oik
- roughneck
- ruffian
- scoundrel
- toad
- warlock
- white van man
- wide boy
- wise guy
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rakeverb
uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/rake verb (SEARCH)
[ I + adv/prep ] to search in a container by moving the contents around quickly:
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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rake verb (USE TOOL)
[ I or T ] to use a rake to make earth level or to collect leaves:
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Gardening tools
- clippers
- edger
- hedge trimmers
- hoe
- hose
- hover mower
- lawnmower
- motor mower
- mower
- rose
- scythe
- secateurs
- sprayer
- sprinkler
- Strimmer
- trowel
- watering can
- Weed Whacker
- wheelbarrow
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