Definition of rake

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

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Drake :: Drake (n.) A small piece of artillery.
Rakeshame :: Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch..
Drake :: Drake (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..
Enfilade :: Enfilade (v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops..
Rakery :: Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
Raking :: Raking (n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..
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.
Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..
Drake :: Drake (n.) The male of the duck kind.
Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.
Shelduck :: Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake..
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..
Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..
Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
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