rake

1. 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.
2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

1. The act of raking.
2. Something that is raked.

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

   She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.

1. A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
2. The movement of animals while grazing.
3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
4. A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

1. To walk; to roam, to wander.
2. Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
3. To roam or wander through (somewhere).

1. 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.
2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

1. The act of raking.
2. Something that is raked.

1. A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
2. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
3. (originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

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

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

noun

Rate of progress; pace, speed.

1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
2. (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).
3. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
4. Senses relating to watercraft.
5. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

noun

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

noun

Rate of progress; pace, speed.

1. To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
2. 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.

1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
2. (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).
3. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
4. Senses relating to watercraft.
5. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

1. To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.

   A mast rakes aft.

2. Senses relating to watercraft.

noun

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

verb

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