rake¹ /rāk/

1. A toothed bar on a handle, for scraping, gathering together, smoothing, etc
2. A tool for various purposes, toothed, notched or bladed and with a long handle (eg a croupier's implement for drawing in money)
3. A wheeled field implement with long teeth for gathering hay, scraping up weeds, etc
4. A connected set (of railway carriages or wagons)
5. An extremely thin person or horse

1. To scrape, smooth, clear, break up, draw, gather, remove, cover, uncover, search, ransack, with a rake or as if with a rake
2. To cover (a fire) with ashes so as to keep it smouldering
3. To graze, scrape
4. To pass over violently and swiftly
5. To fire (bullets, etc) across the entire line of one's enemy
6. To provide or take a view all over or completely through

1. To work with or as if with a rake
2. To search minutely

rāˈker noun

1. A person who rakes
2. A scavenger
3. A raking implement
4. (in games) a long, fast, low-flying shot (perh partly from rake⁴)

rāˈking noun and adjective

• relaxations
• relaxation therapy
• relaxative
• relaxed
• relaxedly
• relaxes
• relaxin
• relaxing
• relaxins
• relay
• relayed
• relaying
• relay race
• relay races
• relays
• rel. d
• second mate
• second mates
• second men
• secondment
• secondments
• second mortgage
• second mortgages
• second name
• second names