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(1):

(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.

(2):

(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

(3):

(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

(4):

(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

(5):

(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

(6):

(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

(7):

(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

(8):

(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

(9):

(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

(10):

(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

(11):

(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, - used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

(12):

(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, - used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

(13):

(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; - called also rake-vein.

(14):

(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

(15):

(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; - often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

(16):

(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.

(17):

(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.