(noun.) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil.

(noun.) a dissolute man in fashionable society.

(verb.) gather with a rake; 'rake leaves'.

(verb.) level or smooth with a rake; 'rake gravel'.

(verb.) move through with or as if with a rake; 'She raked her fingers through her hair'.

(verb.) sweep the length of; 'The gunfire raked the coast'.

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• In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• The barber soaped my face, and then took his razor and gave me a rake that well nigh threw me into convulsions. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• He gave his throat a thorough rake round, as if it were the duty of every person not to be mistaken through thickness of voice. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• By these attentions, that veteran rake, Rawdon Crawley, found himself converted into a very happy and submissive married man. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• And these new means were the hay tedder to stir it, the horse hay-rake, the great hay-forks to load, and the hay-stackers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Why, you are not going to trust yourself in that rake's carriage alone? 哈里特·威爾遜. 哈里特·威爾遜回憶錄.
• I can't,' replied the girl; 'Missis Raddle raked out the kitchen fire afore she went to bed, and locked up the kittle. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Charcoal in the furnace being well ignited, ore and charcoal resting on the tray are alternately raked into the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Wildeve threw three points; Venn two, and raked in the coins. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• She seemed to have raked up everything. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• They will be raking up everything against him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• Which, you see, Pip, said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, were a drawback on my learning. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• This plan was very clumsy, but improvements were made so rapidly that by 1860 the market was filled with various patterns of self-raking reapers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The hay can be gathered by any number of sweep rakes and dumped near the stacker, which will stack on any side and in any shape. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The salt settles to the bottom of the pan and large rakes operated either by hand or machinery collect the salt. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• This output, together with 75,000 horse rakes, also made, averaged a complete machine for every forty seconds in the year, working ten hours a day. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.

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