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Definition of Rake in

1. Verb. Earn large sums of money. "Since she accepted the new position, she has been raking it in"

Definition of Rake in

1. Verb. (literally) to collect something such as leaves into a pile, often with a rake ¹

2. Verb. (figuratively) to receive or to collect a large quantity of (something, especially money) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Rake in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one over his head with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered him that crown for his muck-rake; ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"takes them apart again, and has them first into a room where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand :* there stood ..."

3. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Some rake- heads revolve, as in the old flup-OT-cr rake ; in others, ... 4153 is another form of the revolving-rake, in which the operator rides and manages ..."

4. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1894)
"The rake in Prison. The Rake is seated in despair, his wife is cursing him; only the girl whose early affections he won remains kind, and conies to visit ..."

5. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1891)
"The rake in Prison. The Rake is seated in despair, his wife is cursing him; only the girl ... The rake in Bedlam. Here we see the rake in the last stage of ..."

6. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"The drill rake is a large-headed rake, in which the teeth are triangular in section, like small coulters; and they are set ..."

7. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"McCormick intro- straw, cleaned it, and ground it into flour at one duced his self-rake in 1861, based on SA operation. they be said to have achieved any ..."

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