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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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Bracken :: Bracken (n.) A brake or fern.

Drake :: Drake (n.) A dragon.

Mandragora :: Mandragora (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1..

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

Paroquet :: Paroquet (n.) Same as Parrakeet.

Stale :: Stale (n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake..

Green-leek :: Green-leek (n.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.

Overraked :: Overraked (imp. & p. p.) of Overrak.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc..

Berthing :: Berthing (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake..

Brake :: Brake (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..

Crowberry :: Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry..

Strake :: Strake (n.) A streak.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Raked :: Raked (imp. & p. p.) of Rak.

Crakeberry :: Crakeberry (n.) See Crowberry.

Rakel :: Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.