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 (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..
Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.
Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft..
Skieldrake :: Skieldrake (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Sheldrake :: Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows..
Rake :: Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc..
Kraken :: Kraken (n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus..
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..
Water Crake :: Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..
Sora :: Sora (n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto..
Scrat :: Scrat (v. i.) To rake; to search.
Crowberry :: Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry..
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..
Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
Rakery :: Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..
Mandragorite :: Mandragorite (n.) One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
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..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
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