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1. Move through with or as if with a rake
   "She raked her fingers through her hair"
    
2. Level or smooth with a rake
   "rake gravel"
    
3. Sweep the length of
   "The gunfire raked the coast"
    
4. Examine hastily
   - scan, skim, glance over, run down
    
5. Gather with a rake
   "rake leaves"
    
6. Scrape gently
   - graze, crease

1. A dissolute man in fashionable society
   - rakehell [archaic], profligate, rip, blood [archaic], roué
    
2. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
   - pitch, slant
    
3. A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

Derived forms: rakes, raked, raking

See also: rake in, rake off

Type of: brush, collect, debauchee, displace, examine, garner, gather, gradient, libertine, move, pull together, rounder, see, slope, smooth, smoothen, sweep, tool

Encyclopedia: Rake, IA Rake Rake, West Sussex Rake, Iowa