noun

• (agriculture, horticulture) 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."
• (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
• (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
• (cellular automata) 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)."

verb

• To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
  "The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money."
• To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
• To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
  "The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face."
• To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

noun

• Something that is raked.
  "Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car."

noun

• (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
• (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
• (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  "The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches."
• (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).