·vi To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
II. Rake ·vi To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
III. Rake ·vi To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
IV. Rake ·vi To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
V. Rake ·vt To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
VI. Rake ·noun A toothed machine drawn by a horse, — used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
VII. Rake ·vt To search through; to Scour; to Ransack.
VIII. Rake ·vt To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay;
— often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
IX. Rake ·noun A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so;
— called also rake-vein.
X. Rake ·noun The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, ·etc.
XI. Rake ·vi To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to Scrape; to search minutely.
XII. Rake ·noun the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
XIII. Rake ·noun A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
XIV. Rake ·vt 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.
XV. Rake ·vt 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.
XVI. Rake ·vt To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
XVII. Rake ·noun An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, — used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.