"rake : (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle,..."

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rake : (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.
(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
(gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
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(Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
(mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
(Britain, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
(systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
(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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A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
English artist William Hogarth was born today in 1697. His series of paintings called A Rake’s Progress (1732–1734) depicts a rake who wastes his money on extravagant living, gambling, and prostitutes, and ends up first in prison and then in an insane asylum.

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- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rake#English

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