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Rake

Definitions: Rake

Rake

Noun

1. A dissolute man in fashionable society.

2. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane: "the roof had a steep pitch".

3. A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil.

Verb

1. Move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair".

2. Level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel".

3. Sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast".

4. Examine hastily.

5. Gather with a rake; "rake leaves".

6. Scrape gently.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Rake

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream of using a rake, portends that some work which you have left to others will never be accomplished unless you superintend it yourself.
To see a broken rake, denotes that sickness, or some accident will bring failure to your plans.
To see others raking, foretells that you will rejoice in the fortunate condition of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Geography

The inclination of a rock stratum from the horizontal, the angle between its maximum slope and the horizontal being the true dip. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Rake A libertine. A contraction of rakehell, used by Milton and others.
"And far away amid their rakehell bands
They speed a lady left all succourless."
Francis Quarles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Metallurgy

An iron bar, either straight or elbowed, used for cleaning the metal batch or the furnace walls. Source: European Union. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Dutch (schuinsmarcheerder). (references)

Slang in 1811

RAKE, RAKEHELL, or RAKESHAME. A lewd, debauched fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Rake, Iowa

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rake is a city located in Winnebago County, Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 227.

Geography


Rake is located at 43°29'0" North, 93°55'10" West (43.483451, -93.919498)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 227 people, 110 households, and 53 families residing in the city. The population density is 86.8/km² (225.3/mi²). There are 119 housing units at an average density of 45.5/km² (118.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 92.51% White, 0.00% African American, 1.76% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 5.73% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 7.93% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 110 households out of which 19.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.0% are married couples living together, 3.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 51.8% are non-families. 44.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 29.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.06 and the average family size is 2.89. In the city the population is spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 23.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 100.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.7 males. The median income for a household in the city is $24,375, and the median income for a family is $33,750. Males have a median income of $25,357 versus $20,625 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,816. 13.1% of the population and 7.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.5% are under the age of 18 and 26.2% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rake, Iowa."

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Synonyms: Rake

Synonyms: blood (n), pitch (n), profligate (n), rip (n), roue (n), slant (n), crease (v), glance over (v), graze (v), run down (v), scan (v), skim (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rake

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Assemblage

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Bad Man

Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal.

Cleanness

Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.

Brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.

Disapprobation

Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.

Evidence

Collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up evidence; experiment.

Excitation

Fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Intemperance

Revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.

Libertine

Noun: libertine; voluptuary; a; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man; intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard; chartered libertine.

Memory

Recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past.

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Regression

Verb: draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in tow.

Noun: traction; drawing; Verb: draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rake

English words defined with "rake": Batement lightcroupier's rakeenfiladegarden rakeHayrake, Hopper boy, HorserakeOverrake, Oyster dredgerake handle, rake in, rake off, rake up, Raked, Rakehell, Raker, Rakestale, Rake-vein, Raking, rakishnessSarculation, Scrat, slice bar, Stubble rakeTo rake out, To rake up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rake": 50465BARK-PRESS OPERATOR, Barnabas, BASIN OPERATOR, block rake, BOBBIN-CLEANING-MACHINE OPERATOR, bobbin-stripper, BONE-CHAR OPERATOR, brush rake, BULKER, CUT TOBACCOcaretaker, grounds, CASTING-OPERATOR HELPER, cement finisher, CEMENT MASON, cement paver, chinese rake, chore tender, concrete finisher, concrete floater, cop breaker, Corinthian Tomdewatering classifier, drag rake, DUDDERING RAKEfarm laborer, FARMWORKER, GENERAL II, FINISHER-CARD TENDER, FIRER HELPER, first face, FISH-BIN TENDER, fruit pickergeneral utility worker, glove finisher, GLOVE FORMER, glove presser, glove turner and former, gouge rake, grease-press helper, GROUNDSKEEPER, INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIALHARVEST WORKER, FRUIT, HEAVY-MEDIA OPERATOR, HOG TENDER, HOPPER FEEDER, HYDROELECTRIC-PLANT MAINTAINERINCINERATOR OPERATOR I, INCINERATOR PLANT LABORER, IRISH-MOSS GATHERERLABORER, AIRPORT MAINTENANCE, LABORER, LANDSCAPE, LABORER, TREE TAPPING, land of the face, LAWN-SERVICE WORKER, layer-off, LEAD HANDLER, limerock tower loader, LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANTMAN OF THE TOWN, McLeod tool, mechanical rake, metal pourer, MOON RAKERS, Moon-rakersnegative rakeodd-job worker, OVEN-PRESS TENDER IIPINSETTER ADJUSTER, AUTOMATIC, PLUG SHAPER, HAND, pot puncher, POT TENDER, PROJECT-CREW WORKERquill cleaner, quill skinner, quill stripper, quill-cleaning-machine operatorrabbling tool, rake blade, rake of stylus, rake vein, RAKEHELL, REPTILE FARMER, right runnin, ROASTER, GRAIN, rock rake, root rakeSEWAGE-DISPOSAL WORKER, shape hand, SHEAR SETTER, SHRIMP-PEELING-MACHINE OPERATOR, starting taper, SWIMMING POOL INSTALLER-AND-SERVICER, Swinge-buckler, Symbols of Saintstailing hand, TIN RECOVERY WORKER, TOWER ATTENDANTUTILITY WORKER, MERCHANT MILL. (references)
Etymologies containing "rake": HarpagonRakel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rake

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Face first on a rake ("I Can't Watch This"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Movie/TV Titles

Rake viski (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rake

DomainTitle

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Music

  

Consumer Goods

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Familiar Quotations: Rake

AuthorQuotation

Thomas B. Macaulay

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Rake

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Her father was a brutal, boasting old professor of mathematics, never married, and a rake, despite his years.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He bent down to rake the fire.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He so dragged his rake that the tine marks were straight and deep.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rake

"Rake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.63% of the time. "Rake" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)49.63%13427,488
Lexical Verb (infinitive)21.11%5744,859
Lexical Verb (base form)15.93%4352,181
Noun (proper)13.33%3657,479
                    Total100.00%270N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Rake

The following table summarizes the usage of "rake" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RakeLast name1,00012,970
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Rake


1. Rake, IA (city, FIPS 65415)
Location: 43.48134 N, 93.92101 W
Population (1990): 238 (135 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 50465
Country: USA

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Expressions: Rake

Expressions using "rake": block rake chinese rake croupier's rake garden rake hand rake lawn rake mechanical rake muck rake rake about rake among rake away rake blade rake for cattle rake handle rake in rake of stylus rake off rake out rake over rake through rake together rake trough rake up rake up evidence rake up the past rake vein root rake stubble rake thin as a rake To rake out To rake up Top rake. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rake": rake-held, rake-hell, rake-off, rake-offs, Rake-vein.

Ending with "rake": drag-rake, hay-rake, muck-rake.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rake

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rake

139

power rake

87

landscape rake

84

york rake

59

hay rake

57

rake yohn

44

clam rake

33

rock rake

32

cyclone rake

30

garden rake

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rake

Language Translations for "rake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rashqel, shpinë (back, backing, rear, spine), shkrif tokën, punoj me grabujë, pjesë e pjerrët, pastroj me krehër, mbledh me rashqel, krehër (clip, comb, raker), kënd pjerrësisë, griba (comb, currycomb), grabujë (raker), capë (spud). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏خليع (dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rakish, uninhibited, wanton), ‏أشعل النار (poke the fire, set fire), ‏ألقى نظرة خاطفة على, ‏إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, downhill, falling, inclination, ramp, scarp, slope, steep, tilt), ‏المدمة أداة لجمع العشب, ‏جراف, ‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, shovel, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏شخص فاسق, ‏خدش (abrasion, claw, graze, mark, scarify, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratch off), ‏فاجر (bawdy, dissipated, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rakish, wanton), ‏زاوية الجرف, ‏نبش (dig into, dig out, dig up, disinterment, exhume, grub, make a hole in, resurrect, revelation, scratch up, snoop, snooping, unearthing), ‏نقب (burrow, burrowing, comb, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), ‏مس مسا رقيقا, ‏محراك الجمر, ‏كسب بسرعة, ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏كنس (besom, broom, scavenge, sweep, sweeping, whisk), ‏خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

oomowááhkii (to rake). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

оглаждам (even, iron, press, smooth out), поглеждам набързо, почиствам (clean, clean out, clean up, overcast, refurbish, rumble, whip, wipe clean), преден ъгъл на нож, лопатка на крупие, женкар (chaser, dangler, lothario, rakehell, wolf), загребвам (scoop, scoop in), заравнявам (level, plane), накланям (recline, shear, tilt, tip), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), наклон на щевен, одрасквам (clapperclaw, graze, scrape, scratch, scuff), докосвам леко (shave), обстрелвам продолно, ъгъл на щевен, грапа (raker), гребло (grab, oar, paddle, raker, scoop), греба (dip, dredge, ladle, oar, pull, pull an oar, row, scoop, shovel), търмък (raker), търмъча (rake away, rake off), фланкирам с огън, хокам (rag, rate, revile, scold, tick off, vituperate), скосяване (scarf), срязване (put down, rebuff, repulse, set down, shear, shearing, squelch), събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), ъгъл на наклон, обхващам с поглед (travel). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

balle. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

犁耙 (Ploughshare, Plowshare, rake-off), ' (climb, cling to, crawl, dig up, hold on to, pull, push aside, snatch, to strip). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zpustlík (libertine, reprobate), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), pohrabáè (poker), přehrabovat, hrabat (grub, paw, scrabble), hrábì, hejsek (toff), šikmé jevištì. (various references)

   

Danish

  

slaggerager (rabble), inklination (angle of inclination, dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, strike), ildrager (poker, rabble), hældning (dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, ramp, slope, strike, tilt, tip inclination), dyk (dip, dive, inclination, pitch, plunge, strike). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitkammen (comb, weeding), opharken, harken (raking, to rake), aanharken. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

rastilo, rasti. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

raka saman. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

جای پا (Toe, Trace, Vestige), باسرعت جلورفتن , باچنگک جمع کردن , شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), شن کش , شیب (Declivity, Dip, Gradient, Inclination, Incline, Pendant, Slant, Slope, Tilt), شیار (Groove, List, Ruck, Thread, Valley), رگه (Grain, Strain, Streak, Thread, Vein), بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Reprobate, Vile), جاده باریک , فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), جمع اوری کردن (Cull, Levy, Mass, Muster, Reap), خطسیر (Duct, Itinerary, Pathway, Trajectory, Vector), خمیدگی (Bend, Bent, Curvature, Loop, Offset, Stoop), سفر (Expedition, Journey, Junket, Pilgrimage, Progress, Tour, Trade, Trek, Trip, Voyage), چنگال (Claw, Clef, Clutch, Fork, Grain, Nail, Paw, Pitchfork, Prong, Talon), چنگک (Gaff, Hook, Peg, Prong, Tach, Uncus), هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), فاجر (Dissolute, Rakish), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage, Vestige). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

haravoida (raking, to rake). (various references)

   

French

  

ringard (rabble), râteau. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

klauje. (various references)

   

German

  

harken (rake over, rakes, raking, to rake), Harke (billhook, scarifier, wooden rake), rechen (grill, mouse, rack, raking, to rake), Neigung (affection, affinity, angle of inclination, aptitude, batter, bent, bias, declination, decline, dip, disposition, fall, fondness, geologic dip of planar features, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, penchant, pitch, plunge, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, strike, taste, tendance, tendency, tilt, turn). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξύστρα (buffer, carding comb, cattle comb, chain harrow, curry comb, flight, light spiked chain harrow, paddle, pencil sharpener, rabble, raker, rasp, scraper, sharpener, squeegee). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מופקר (meretricious, profligate, unbridled), מש""", מארופ" (shovel), מ'וב, מ'רפ" (shovel, trowel), לחטט (grub, nose, ransack, root, rummage, scrabble), לאסוף (collect, gather, reap, remove, round up, take in, withdraw), ל"מטיר יריות (fusillade), לצבור (accumulate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, pile up, stack, stash, store), שפיע" (leaning, slant), שפוע (bank, bevel, cant, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip), "ולל (licentious, mirthful, profligate, rakish, unruly), טי" (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gereblye, piszkavas (firing-tools, poker, rabble, rabbler, stoker), lejtés (batter, downhill, droop, gradient, hang, inclination, pitching, slope, swing), korhely (debauchee, guzzler, raffish, rakehell, sot), dőlés (dip, gradient, heeling, listing, pitching, slant, slope, tilt), bontófésű, élvhajhász (goat, lecherous, rakehell). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

raka, hrífa. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penggaruk (comb, curry, harrow, scraper), menggaruk (clean out, rob, round up people). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rastrello (billhook, pig, rabbit, rabbler, rack, scraper, scratcher, wooden rake). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

馬鍬 (harrow), 熊手 (bamboo rake, fork), ルミノール試" (free loader, lake, laser, laser disk, laser printer, laserknife, Laserwriter, LD, Le Monde, loafer, luminol test, lung, racer, rumba, tramp, unemployed person). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

レーキ , くまで (bamboo rake, fork), まぐわ (harrow). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

이크. (various references)

   

Manx

  

raistyl (libertine), raakey (rake out, rake over, scrape together), raak, faaney (batter, inclination, incline, ski-run, slant), corlaigey (rake over, scrape together), corlaig (muckrake, scraper), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear), ard-stroailtagh (wastrel). (various references)

   

Papago

  

hukshanakud. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

harka, haladó. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akeray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ancinho (billhook, garden tillage, Harrow, reel, wooden rake), limpar (bream, brush, clean, cleanse, delete, depurate, dressing, fetus, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, to curry, to dress and to brush, to dry out, to groom, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), inclinação (addiction, angle of inclination, appetite, batter, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling rock, fellow feeling, fondness, full dip, grade, gradient, hang, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, leans, like, liking, list, loquacious, motion, partiality, pencil, pitch, plunge, proclivity, propensity, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, strike, taper, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, true dip, vocation, will). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rãscoli (agitate, disturb, quarry, rout, rummage, stir, turn smth. inside out), zgândãri (aggravate, anger, embitter, sharpen, touch), scormoni (dig up, fan, ferret, Grout, poke up, ransack, rout, rummage, scan, scrutinize, search, stir up), libertin (dissolute, libertine), greblã, fi înclinat (be out of plumb, hang, shelve, slope), destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster), crai (emperor, Lovelace, padishah, philanderer, whoremaster), cociorvã, berbant (scapegrace). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грабли (raker, rakers). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

r sdal, r sdail (a rake, harrow, sound of frying meat), r c (a drake, a rake, quack, the call of a duck). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zasuti vatrom (shell), zaraditi (earn, make a profit, net), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, shrink, treasure), grabulje (raker), grabuljati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rastro (dredge, fabricated steel chock, raker, scent, sign, spoor, trace, track, trail, vestige), rastrillo (beater, comb, portcullis, rack, raker, reed, ripper, scarifier, scraper, slusher), hurgón (poker, rabble). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

räfsa (raker, raking, to rake), kratta (coward), rucklare (fast liver). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เสาะหา, เอียงลา" (bevel), การลา"เอียง (obliqueness, tip), กวา""้วยครา", คนเสเพล (rip), คุ้ย (scrabble about). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tırmıkla toplamak (rake together), çapkın adam (gay dog), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), arayıp taramak (comb, comb out, delve), eğiklik (inclination, obliqueness, skew, slant), fırın tarağı, gelberi (rabble), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, dissolute, flirt, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rakish, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, vagabond, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer), tırmık (drag, grubber, Harrow), zampara (debauchee, fornicator, goat, lecher, lecherous, lubricious, lubricous, masher, roue, wolf, womanizer), tırmıklamak (Harrow, rake over, seam), taraklamak, taramak (card, comb, drag, groom, scan, sweep, teasel), uçarı (abandoned, debauchee, dissolute, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, giddy, rip), yan yatma, yan yatmak (careen), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

dyrmyk, dyrmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скребачка (scrubber, spade, wiper), розгрібати, чистити скребачкою, кочерга (poker, rabble), граблі (raker), загрібати (claw, pull in, rake in, scoop up), перегрібати (rabble). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự nghiêng về phía sau, que cời than cái c o tiền, kẻ trác táng cái c o cái c o than, kẻ chơi bời phóng đãng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

rhacanu, rhaca, cribinio, cribin (skinflint). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rake

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

interrasile, interrasilem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rake

Derivations

Words beginning with "rake": raked, rakee, rakees, rakehell, rakehells, rakehelly, rakeoff, rakeoffs, raker, rakers, rakes. (additional references)

Words ending with "rake": aerobrake, berake, brake, canebrake, corncrake, crake, drake, firedrake, lapstrake, mandrake, muckrake, sheldrake, strake, unbrake. (additional references)

Words containing "rake": aerobraked, aerobrakes, beraked, berakes, brakeage, brakeages, braked, brakeless, brakeman, brakemen, brakes, canebrakes, corncrakes, crakes, drakes, firedrakes, kraken, krakens, mandrakes, muckraked, muckraker, muckrakers, muckrakes, parakeet, parakeets, parrakeet, parrakeets, ringstraked, sheldrakes, straked, strakes, unbraked, unbrakes, unraked. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arake, arek, Ariake, arke, arken, arket, Arku, aroke, eake, Gralko, mrake, prake, raae, rac, Radke, Radko, raeker, rahe, raie, raik, raike, Rajka, Rajko, rak, raka, raken, raker, rakey, rakia, rakic, rakie, Rakim, Rakiz, raku, raky, ralee, rame, rane, ranke, ranki, Ranku, raoe, Raska, raue, rauk, ravk, rawe, raxe, Raykat, rece, Reikel, reje, reka, riek, Rijken, Rijksen, rika, rike, Rikei, Rikke, rilke, rk, Rka, rke, Rkka, roace, roke, rokey, roki, ruke, Rwaje, Ryke, wrake. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rake"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rake" (pronounced rā"k)
3r ā" kbrake, break, Drake.
2-ā" kache, awake, bake, cake, fake, flake, forsake, haik, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, Paik, partake, quake, remake, retake, sake, shake, snake, spake, stake, steak, take, wake.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rake

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-k-r"

-1 letter: are, ark, ear, era, kae, kea.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, ka, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-r"
 

+1 letter: asker, baker, brake, break, crake, creak, drake, eskar, faker, freak, kebar, laker, maker, raked, rakee, raker, rakes, saker, taker, waker, wreak.

 

+2 letters: arcked, arkose, askers, backer, bakers, bakery, balker, banker, barked, barker, beaker, berake, braked, brakes, breaks, cakier, calker, canker, carked, crakes, creaks, creaky, dacker, daiker, danker, darked, darken, darker, darkey, darkie, darkle, debark, dekare, demark, drakes, embark, eskars, eureka, fakeer, fakers, fakery, flaker, freaks, freaky, gawker, hacker, hanker, harked, harken, hawker, jacker, kaiser, karate, kasher, kebars, kerria, kraken, krater, lacker, lakers, lakier, lanker, larked, larker, leaker, lekvar, makers, marked, marker, market, masker, narked, packer, parked, parker, quaker, racked, racker, racket, rackle, rakees, rakers, ranked, ranker, rankle, remake, remark, repack, repark, rerack, resoak, retack, retake, rewake, sacker, sakers, screak, shaker, skater, slaker, soaker, strake, streak, tacker, takers, talker, tanker, wakers, walker, warked, weaker, wreaks, yakker.

 

+3 letters: airlike, arabesk, arkoses, armlike, backers, balkers, balkier, bankers, barkeep, barkers, barkier, beakers, beakier, beraked, berakes, blacker, blanker, bleaker, bracken, bracket, brakier, breaker, breakup, brokage, cackler, calkers, cankers, caulker, charked, clacker, comaker, corkage, cracked, cracker, crackle, cranked, cranker, crankle, creaked, croaked, croaker, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darkeys, darkies, darkled, darkles, debarks, dekares, demarks, earlock, earmark, embarks, fakeers, flakers, flakier, flanker, forsake, franked, franker, freaked, garpike, gawkers, gawkier, grackle, hackers, hackler, hankers, harkens, hauberk, hawkers, hearken, hektare, jackers, kaisers, karaoke, karates, kashers, kauries, kayaker, keramic, keratin, kerrias, kerygma, keycard, klavern, knacker, knapper, knarred, knavery, kneader, kraaled, krakens, kraters, lackers, lankier, larkers, larkier, leakers, leakier, lekvars, markers, markets, maskers, meerkat, nakeder, oarlike, packers, parkers, partake, pawkier, peakier, pranked, prebake, prepack, presoak, quakers, quakier, rackers, rackets, rackety, rakeoff, ramekin, rampike, rankers, rankest, rankled, rankles, ranpike, ratlike, raylike, reawake, reawoke, remaker, remakes, remarks, repacks, reparks, reracks, resoaks, respeak, restack, retacks, retaken, retaker, retakes, retrack, rewaked, rewaken, rewakes, sackers, sarkier, screaks, screaky, seamark, shakers, shakier, sharked, sharker, skaters, skiwear, slacker, slakers, smacker, snakier, sneaker, soakers, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, speaker, stacker, stalker, starker, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, swanker, tackers, tackier, tackler, talkers, talkier, tankers, thanker, tracked, tracker, traiked, troaked, unbrake, unmaker, unraked, wackier, wakener, walkers, warlike, whacker, wracked, wreaked, wreaker, yakkers.

 

+4 letters: aircheck, ankerite, arabesks, archduke, asparkle, asterisk, attacker, awakener, backfire, backrest, bakeries, bankerly, bareback, baresark, barkeeps, barkiest, barkless, barnlike, basketry, baulkier, beadwork, bearlike, bearskin, bedarken, bedmaker, beraking, bidarkee, brackens, brackets, brakeage, brakeman, brakemen, brakiest, breakage, breakers, breaking, breakout, breakups, brockage, brokages, cacklers, cankered, capework, capmaker, caretake, caretook, carmaker, casework, caulkers, chalkier, clackers, comakers, cookware, corkages, corncake, crackers, crackled, crackles, cracknel, crankest, crankier, crankled, crankles, creakier, creakily, creaking, croakers, croakier, dackered, daikered, dakerhen, darkened, darkener, darklier, darkness, darksome, daybreak, debarked, dekagram, demarked, diemaker, earlocks, earmarks, ecofreak, embarked, fakeries, fireback, flackery, flankers, forepeak, forerank, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, frankers, frankest, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freakout, garpikes, grackles, grosbeak, hacklers, hacklier, hairlike, hankered, hankerer, harelike, harkened, harkener, hatmaker, hauberks, havocker, haymaker, headwork, hearkens, hektares, hijacker, icemaker, imbarked, imparked, jackeroo, kaiserin, kaleyard, karaokes, karosses, kashered, kayakers, keramics, keratins, keratoid, keratoma, keratose, kerygmas, keyboard, keycards, kidnaper, klaverns, knackers, knackery, knappers, kneaders, knitwear, kreplach, lacework, lackered, lakeport, lardlike, larkiest, larksome, laverock, lawmaker, leadwork, lukewarm, mackerel, makeover, malarkey, mandrake, mapmaker, markedly, marketed, marketer, marksmen, maverick, meerkats, mistaker, muckrake, neckwear, ninebark, outbreak, overbake, overrank, oversoak, overtake, overtalk, overtask, overweak, packager, parakeet, parakite, parklike, parroket, partaken, partaker, partakes, plankter, prebaked, prebakes, prefrank, prepacks, presoaks, quackery, racketed, rakehell, rakeoffs, ramekins, rampikes, rankness, ranpikes, rashlike, reaphook, reattack, reawaked, reawaken, reawakes, reawoken, redshank, reembark, rejacket, remakers, remaking, remarked, remarker, remarket, repacked, reparked, reracked, resoaked, respeaks, restacks, retacked, retackle, retakers, retaking, retracks, rewakens, rewaking, rockabye, ropewalk, sarkiest, screaked, seamarks, seatwork, shackler, sharkers, shikaree, slackers, smackers, snarkier, sneakers, sneakier, spankers, sparkers, sparkier, sparkled, sparkler, sparkles, sparlike, speakers, squawker, squeaker, stackers, stalkers, stalkier, starkers, starkest, starlike, streaked, streaker, swankier, tacklers, takeover, teamaker, teamwork, telemark, teriyaki, thankers, thwacker, tidemark, trackage, trackers, trackmen, traplike, truckage, tweakier, unbraked, unbrakes, unmakers, unmarked, unmasker, unpacker, unranked, upmarket, valkyrie, wakeners, wakerife, walkover, walkyrie, warmaker, wartlike, weakener, weaklier, whackers, whackier, wigmaker, workable, workfare, workmate, wreakers, wreaking, wreckage, yarmelke, yarmulke, yearbook.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rake


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .-    -.-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 006B 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52677771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction