rake
Other forms: raked; raking; rakes
If it’s fall and the yard is covered with leaves, you'll want to get out the rake, a long-handled tool with a row of tines. Either that, or get out the excuses and leave the leaves where they lie.
Rake has several senses, including to use a rake to gather leaves or smooth soil. Rake can also mean to search something — the way police may rake through a crime scene for clues or the way you may rake through a messy desk to find a pencil. A rake is also a slanted plane — it's often used to refer to a slanted stage in a theater. In high society, a rake is an immoral man.
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a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soiltypes:croupier's rakea small rake used by a croupier to move chips around on the tablegarden rakea rake used by gardenerstype of:toolan implement used in the practice of a vocation
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gather with a rake
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level or smooth with a rake
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scrape gently
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move through with or as if with a rake
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sweep the length of
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examine hastily
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a dissolute man in fashionable society
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degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
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Vocabulary lists containing rake
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