RAKES

Definition

1. A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
2. The movement of animals while grazing.
3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.

1. To walk; to roam, to wander.
2. Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
3. To roam or wander through (somewhere).

1. 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.
2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

1. The act of raking.
2. Something that is raked.

1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
   “She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.”

1. A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
2. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
3. (originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
   “The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”

1. Rate of progress; pace, speed.

1. To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
2. Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
2. (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
3. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.

1. To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
   “A mast rakes aft.”
2. Senses relating to watercraft.

1. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.

1. To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.

Source: Wiktionary

Anagrams of RAKES

Hooks

Front hooks: B-RAKES C-RAKES D-RAKES

This word in other languages

CS DA NL FR DE PL PT SK ES

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