rakes

Noun (1)

rake (plural rakes)

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.
   • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 19–20

   Synonyms:

   horserake

2. (broadly) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
3. (broadly) A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
4. A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
   • I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot).1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
5. (collective) A group of mules.
   • Plus, his ever-increasing rake of mules were outgrowing the small parcel of acreage he had inherited in Tennessee.2020, Barbara L. Wyckoff, Who Was Victoria Silkee

Noun (2)

rake (plural rakes)

1. The act of raking.

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