\Rake\, n. [AS. race; akin to OD. rake, D. reek, OHG,
rehho, G. rechen, Icel, reka a shovel, and to Goth. rikan to
heap up, collect, and perhaps to Gr. ? to stretch out, and E.
rack to stretch. Cf. {Reckon}.]
1. 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.
2. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting
   hay or grain; a horserake.
3. [Perhaps a different word.] (Mining) A fissure or mineral
   vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; --
   called also {rake-vein}.
{Gill rakes}. (Anat.) See under 1st {Gill}.

\Rake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Raking}.] [AS. racian. See 1st {Rake}.]
1. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;
   as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
2. Hence: 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.
3. 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.
4. To search through; to scour; to ransack.
         The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
                                               --Swift.
5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and
   lightly, as a rake does.
         Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.
                                               --Wordsworth.
6. (Mil.) 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.
{To rake up}.
   (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and
       cover with ashes.
   (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again;
       as, to rake up old scandals.

\Rake\, v. i.
1. To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to
   scrape; to search minutely.
         One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.
                                               --Dryden.
2. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
         Pas could not stay, but over him did rake. --Sir P.
                                               Sidney.

\Rake\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. raka to reach, and E. reach.]
To inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;
as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.; especially
(Naut.), the inclination of a mast or tunnel, or, in general,
of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

\Rake\, v. i.
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes
aft.
{Raking course} (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid
   diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to
   strengthen.

\Rake\, n. [OE. rakel rash; cf. Icel. reikall wandering,
unsettled, reika to wander.]
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a rou['e].
      An illiterate and frivolous old rake.    --Macaulay.

\Rake\, v. i.
1. [Icel. reika. Cf. {Rake} a debauchee.] To walk about; to
   gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]
2. [See {Rake} a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a
   dissolute, debauched life. --Shenstone.
{To rake out} (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its
   master while hovering above waiting till the game is
   sprung; -- said of the hawk. --Encyc. Brit.