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A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

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The movement of animals while grazing.

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The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.

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A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

verb

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To walk; to roam, to wander.

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Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.

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To roam or wander through (somewhere).

noun

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A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

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(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

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The act of raking.

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Something that is raked.

verb

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To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

example

She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.

noun

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A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.

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A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

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(originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

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The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.

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(systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

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Rate of progress; pace, speed.

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To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.

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Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

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A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.

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(specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).

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The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.

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Senses relating to watercraft.

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(roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

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To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.

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A mast rakes aft.

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Senses relating to watercraft.

noun

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A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.

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To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.

Examples of rakes in a Sentence

Two other sons, Rocco and Cristoforo, both of them notorious rakes, were killed in brawls.

Great improvements have been made in the means of feeding the mills with canes by doing away with hand labour and substituting mechanical feeders or rakes, which by means of a simple steam-driven mechanism will rake the canes from the cane waggons on to the cane-carriers.

The work, he says, is the "production of a decided partisan," who "rakes in the ashes of long-forgotten and a thousand times buried slanders, 1 Lord Brougham, overlooking the constitutional chapter in the Middle Ages, censured Hallam for making an arbitrary beginning at this point, and proposed to write a more complete history himself.

The M`Dougall furnace is turret-shaped, and consists of a series of circular hearths, on which the ore is agitated by rakes attached to revolving arms and made to fall from hearth to hearth.

The shaft is provided with sockets, into which movable arms with their rakes are readily dropped.

In some the rakes are attached to rigid frames, with a reciprocating motion, in others to cross-bars moved by revolving chains.

The M`Dougall-Herreshoff, working on ores of over 30% of sulphur, requires no fuel; but in furnaces of the reverberatory type fuel must be used, as an excess of air enters through the slotted sides and the hinged doors which open and shut frequently to permit of the passage of the rakes.

The oyster fisheries give employment to over 56,000 fishermen, who man 4000 vessels, valued at $4,000,000, and 23,000 boats, valued at $1,470,000; the value of the 1 i,000 dredges and 37,000 tongs, rakes and other appliances used is $365,000.

Early in life Richard Savage acquired notoriety by his dare-devilry and dissipation, and he was, too, one of the most conspicuous rakes in the society of the period.

Formerly it was the practice to carry out such operations entirely by hand, men charging the retorts either by means of shovel or hand-scoop, and the coke produced being withdrawn with hand rakes.

Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg.

There was a special bogie to couple onto the loco forming rakes of wagons hurtling across the countryside.

Scarify with rakes to maintain an open sward to allow the germination of seedlings.

Peg boards mount onto the walls of the garage, while repositionable hooks can hang clippers, rakes, wrenches and hammers, keeping them well organized while taking up hardly any room at all.

Total tool investment can be $200-$400 for a lawn mower, leaf blower, rakes, trash cans, plastic bags, brooms and other yard tools.

Of this operation, and of the forks and rakes and the haymaking there is a very good account.

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