Definition of rake

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Rake (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..

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Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..
Raker :: Raker (n.) A person who uses a rake.
Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.
Water Crake :: Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
Raker :: Raker (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Parakeet :: Parakeet (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..
Raker :: Raker (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region..
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card..
Overraked :: Overraked (imp. & p. p.) of Overrak.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..
Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill..
Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..
Rakehell :: Rakehell (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake..
Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..
Fraken :: Fraken (n.) A freckle.
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