overraking

Verb

overrake (third-person singular simple present overrakes, present participle overraking, simple past and past participle overraked)

1. (transitive) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves break over a vessel anchored with its head to the sea.
   • 1648, Oct. A shallop, which had been a fishing with others all summer, was attempting to make a harbour at "Damaril's Cove, was overraked by the surf , and all drowned , being four Englishmen , and one Indian , and the goods all perished ."1834, Joseph Barlow Felt, History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, page 202
2. To rake over or assault, as enemy gunfire attacking the entire force.
   • At Mevis we intended to refresh ourselves, having been eleven weeks pestered in this unwholesome ship; but there we found two tall ships with the Hollanders' colours, but necessity forcing us on shore, we anchored fair' by them, and in friendly manner sent to hail them; but seeing they were...1812, John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 128
3. To rake or scrape to excess.
   • Of his depth of feeling, his exquisite sensibility, and his poetic fire (which burned the more vigorously, perhaps, for not being overraked with a classical poker) , this is not the place to treat.1903, Samuel Lover, The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Poetical works
4. To rake or scrape over.
   • Better methods are happily coming into use, and it is already being found profitable to overrake the spoil-hillocks of our ancestors.1901 March, John Hyde, “Fairfield: A Peakland Township”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 290, number 2043, page 238
5. To install with too great a slope or angle.
   • As their lordships did me the honour to entrust a frigate of new construction to my charge, I feel it my duty to speak the whole truth, and not deceive the constructor by flattering and specious reports, tending to mislead him; and I hope to be excused in remarking, that a short bow on fine lines...1845, Sir William Symonds, Facts versus Fiction, page 192