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.