1. A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
   "He used a rake to gather the fallen leaves"
    
2. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
   "the roof had a steep rake";
   - pitch, slant
    
3. A dissolute man in fashionable society
   "The rake's scandalous behaviour was the talk of the town";
   - rakehell [archaic], profligate, rip, blood [archaic], roué [archaic]

1. Level or smooth with a rake
   "rake gravel"
    
2. Gather with a rake
   "rake leaves"
    
3. Move through with or as if with a rake
   "She raked her fingers through her hair"
    
4. Sweep the length of
   "The gunfire raked the coast"
    
5. Scrape gently
   "rake the skin";
   - graze, crease
    
6. Examine hastily
   "She raked the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi";
   - scan, skim, glance over, run down

Derived forms: raking, raked, rakes

See also: rake in [informal], rake off [informal]

Type of: brush, collect, debauchee [archaic], displace, examine, garner, gather, gradient, libertine, move, pull together, rounder, see, slope, smooth, smoothen, sweep, tool

Encyclopedia: Rake, Michael