DEF: 1. A garden tool (noun) 2. To gather, to collect (verb)
EX: The product he developed is selling very well; he’s raking in the money.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
rake (noun)1.
a) an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground
b) a machine for gathering hay
2.
an implement like a rake
transitive verb
1.
to gather, loosen, or smooth with or as if with a rake - rake leaves into a pile
2.
to gain rapidly or in abundance - usually used with in rake in a fortune
3.
a) to touch in passing over lightly
b) - scratch scrape
4.
to censure severely
5.
to search through - ransack
6.
to sweep the length of especially with gunfire - enfilade
7.
to glance over rapidly
1.
inclination from the perpendicular , especially the overhang of a ship's bow or stern
2.
inclination from the horizontal - slope
3.
the angle between the top cutting surface of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface of the work
intransitive verb
to incline from the perpendicular
a dissolute person - libertine
