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4-letter words (2 found)

RAKE,REAK,

3-letter words (8 found)

AKE,ARE,ARK,EAR,ERA,ERK,KAE,KEA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,KA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from rake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rake

rake arke rkae krae akre kare raek arek reak erak aerk eark rkea krea reka erka kera ekra aker kaer aekr eakr kear ekar

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Definitions and meaning of rake

rake

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɹeɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk
  • Homophone: raik

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

  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.
    Synonym: (horse-drawn rake) horserake
  2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
    1. (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
  3. (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
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Etymology 2

The verb is partly derived from rake (“tool with a row of pointed teeth”) (see etymology 1) and from Middle English raken (“to rake; to gather by raking; to rake away (debris); to cover with something; (figurative) to conceal, hide; to destroy”) [and other forms], from Old Norse raka (“to scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *raką, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

  1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
    1. (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
    2. (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
    3. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
    4. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
    6. (transitive, intransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
      1. (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
    7. (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
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Noun

rake (plural rakes)

  1. The act of raking.
  2. Something that is raked.
    1. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
    2. (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English rake, rakke (“pass, path, track; type of fencing thrust; pasture land (?)”), and then partly:

  • probably from Old English racu (“bed of a stream; path; account, narrative; explanation; argument, reasoning; reason”) (compare Old English hrace, hraca, hracu (“gorge”)), from Proto-Germanic *rakō (“path, track; course, direction; an unfolding, unwinding; account, narrative; argument, reasoning”) [and other forms], from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”); and
  • from Old Norse rák (“strip; stripe; furrow; small mountain ravine”), further etymology uncertain but probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rakō, as above.

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

  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.
    Synonym: consist
  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”)
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Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

  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)”)

Etymology 4

The verb is derived from Middle English raken (“to go, proceed; to move quickly, hasten, rush; to roam, wander”) [and other forms], from Old English racian (“to go forward, move, run; to hasten; to take a course or direction; to control, direct, govern, rule”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn (“to take a course or direction; to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; to direct oneself”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

  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

rake (plural rakes)

  1. (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
Alternative forms
  • raik

Etymology 5

The origin of the verb is uncertain. The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
    Synonym: slope
  2. (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
    1. (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
    2. (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
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Noun

rake (plural rakes)

  1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  2. (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  3. (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
  4. (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
    1. A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
    2. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
  5. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
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Etymology 6

The noun is a clipping of rakehell (“(archaic) lewd or wanton person, debauchee, rake”), from to rake (out) hell (“to search through hell thoroughly”), in the sense of a person so evil or immoral that they cannot be found in hell even after an extensive search: see rake (“to search through (thoroughly)”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

  2. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
    Synonym: roué
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Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

  1. (intransitive, dated, rare) To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:harlotize

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References

Further reading

  • rake (stock character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • rake (tool) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • rake (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rake”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • KERA, Kear, Kera, aker, reak

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

rake

  1. inflection of raak:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Verb

rake

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of raken

Garo

Adverb

rake

  1. hard

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Yoruba ireke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɽà.kéː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɽə̀.céː]

Noun

ràkē m (possessed form ràken)

  1. sugarcane

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rake

  1. definite singular/plural of rak

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

rake

  1. definite singular/plural of rak

Verb

rake (present tense rakar, past tense raka, past participle raka, passive infinitive rakast, present participle rakande, imperative rake/rak)

  1. Alternative form of raka

Scots

Alternative forms

  • raik, rayk

Etymology

From Middle English raken, from Old English racian (“to direct; rule; take a course or direction; run”).

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle rakin, simple past rakit, past participle rakit)

  1. To proceed with speed; go; make one's way
  2. To journey; travel
  3. (of animals) To move across or search for pasture; wander; roam
  4. To stray

Swedish

Adjective

rake

  1. definite natural masculine singular of rak

Anagrams

  • ekar, reka

Teop

Verb

rake

  1. to want

References

  • Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

Source: wiktionary.org