[reɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel


Phrases:
- as thin as a rake
- rake and scrape
- rake over coals

Origin:
Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’

[reɪk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- draw together with a rake or similar implement
(e.g: I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass)

- scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement
(e.g: her fingers raked Bill's face)


Phrases:
- as thin as a rake
- rake and scrape
- rake over coals

Origin:
Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’

[reɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits
(e.g: a merry Restoration rake)


Phrases:
- a rake's progress

Origin:
late 17th century: abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense

[reɪk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- set (something) at a sloping angle
(e.g: the floor is steeply raked)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century (as a verb): perhaps related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin

[reɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the angle at which a thing slopes
(e.g: you can adjust the rake of the backrests)

- the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century (as a verb): perhaps related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin

[reɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together
(e.g: we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century (originally Scots and northern English, in general sense ‘row or series’): from Old Norse rák ‘stripe, streak’, perhaps from the same base as rakr ‘straight’. The word was in earlier use in the senses ‘path, groove’ and ‘vein of ore’

[reɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a herd of colts


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of rag or from obsolete or Scots rake ‘a rush, a run’