(agriculture, horticulture) 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.
(by extension) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
(cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
The act of raking.
Something that is raked, or it can refer to a share of profits in gambling, a commission fee in poker games, or slang for a lot or plenty, mainly in ireland and scotland.
(Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
(mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
(Britain, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
(Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”)
(Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
(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).
(geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
(nautical) A noun "rake" represents the slant or extension of the bow, stern, or other parts of a watercraft beyond the keel.
(roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
Gather things together quickly, drag or pull in a certain direction, claw or scrape away, bring up or uncover embarrassing information, search through thoroughly, move something across with a side-to-side motion, and cover something by raking things over it.
(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Alternative spelling of raik (“ to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
(intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
(intransitive, falconry) 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.
(transitive, intransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
(nautical) Provide a watercraft's bow or stern with a slant that extends beyond the keel, or for a watercraft to have such a slant.