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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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Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine..

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

Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..

Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

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

Overrake :: Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea..

Shielddrake :: Shielddrake (n.) A sheldrake.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Rake :: Rake (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..

Drake :: Drake (n.) The male of the duck kind.

Canebrake :: Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.

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

Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..

Raker :: Raker (n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill..

Crake :: Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake..

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..

Sheldfowl :: Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.

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