rake
noun
[ reɪk ]
• an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
rake
verb
• draw together with a rake or similar implement.
• "I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass"
• scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement.
• "her fingers raked Bill's face"
Origin:
Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’.
rake
noun
• a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
• "a merry Restoration rake"
Similar:
playboy,
libertine,
profligate,
degenerate,
roué,
debauchee,
dissolute man,
loose-liver,
lecher,
seducer,
ladies' man,
womanizer,
philanderer,
adulterer,
Don Juan,
Lothario,
Casanova,
stud,
player,
playa,
skirt-chaser,
ladykiller,
wolf,
gay dog,
rakehell,
gallant,
rip,
blood,
Origin:
mid 17th century: abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense.
rake
verb
• set (something) at a sloping angle.
• "the floor is steeply raked"
rake
noun
• the angle at which a thing slopes.
• "you can adjust the rake of the backrests"
• the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.
Origin:
early 17th century: probably related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish raka .
rake
noun
• a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together.
• "we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking"
Origin:
late 18th century (originally Scots and northern English, in general sense ‘row or series’): from Old Norse rák ‘stripe, streak’, from an alteration of rek- ‘to drive’. The word was in earlier use in the senses ‘path, groove’ and ‘vein of ore’.
rake
noun
• a herd of colts.
Origin:
late Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of rag1 or from obsolete or Scots rake ‘a rush, a run’.
