Definition of "rake" in Englisch

noun

1. (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

3. (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.

verb

1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

   • She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
   • We raked all the leaves into a pile.

noun

1. The act of raking.

2. Something that is raked.

noun

1. (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.

2. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

3. (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

   • The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.

4. (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).

verb

1. Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.

2. (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

noun

1. (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.

verb

1. (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.

   • A mast rakes aft.

2. (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.

noun

1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.