Definition of rake

"rake" in the noun sense

1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue

a dissolute man in fashionable society

2. pitch, rake, slant

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

"the roof had a steep pitch"

3. rake

a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head used to move leaves or loosen soil

"rake" in the verb sense

1. rake

move through with or as if with a rake

"She raked her fingers through her hair"

2. rake

level or smooth with a rake

"rake gravel"

3. rake

sweep the length of

"The gunfire raked the coast"

4. scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down

examine hastily

"She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

5. rake

gather with a rake

"rake leaves"

6. graze, crease, rake

scrape gently

"graze the skin"

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Quotations for rake

Every woman is at heart a rake. [ Pope ]

Harrow hell and rake up the devil. [ Proverb ]

He uses the rake more than the fork. [ Proverb ]

The fork is commonly the rake's heir. [ Proverb ]

I ask for a fork and you bring me a rake. [ Proverb ]

Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

How in the name of thrift doth he rake this together? [ William Shakespeare ]

He's at a great loss for jests that is forced to rake hell for them. [ Proverb ]

Better have an old man to humour, than a young rake to break your heart. [ Proverb ]

A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]

rake in Scrabble®

The word rake is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters rake:

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rake in Words With Friends™

The word rake is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving rake

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Longer words containing rake

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brake airbrake airbrakes

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brake brakehand brakehands

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