rake
noun
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a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
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degree of deviation from a horizontal planepitch
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a dissolute man in fashionable societyrip
verb
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scrape gentlygraze
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gather with a rake“rake leaves”
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level or smooth with a rake“rake gravel”
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move through with or as if with a rake“I raked my fingers through my hair.”
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examine hastilyscan
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sweep the length of“The gunfire raked the coast”