Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rake
IPA transcription: [ɹ'eɪk]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rake
    Meaning: move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"
  • Synonyms: rake
    Meaning: level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"
Usage examples
  • RAKE.
  • Wherever did you rake up this cactus, Trysdale?"
  • "Not a bit of it, sir; mow in the rain, and you'll rake in fine weather!" said the old man.
  • You can't pick fruit in the dead of winter, can you? or pull weeds, or rake leaves? What other way is there?"
  • The abandoned rake put on the outward sedateness of a philosopher; the scoffing sinner proclaimed that he had forsaken his evil ways, and would live thenceforth a model of virtue.
  • Now and then they have to rake off a steep mountain- side as you might a garden-bed; and sometimes to bury a whole village so quickly that the poor inhabitants do not know what strange hand brought such sudden destruction upon them.
  • When Mary was returning from her work in the evening with a rake on her shoulder and a pitcher in her hand, along with the other servants, this passionate woman came out of the kitchen and met her with a torrent of abuse, and ordered her to give up the linen immediately.
  • For you cannot be ignorant how that execrable heresy has been condemned; for it has not only been abolished these two hundred years, but it is also daily condemned by us and buried under our perpetual ban; and we exhort you not to rake up the ashes of those whose weapons have been burnt.