2. Verb. (third-person singular of rake) ¹
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Definition of Rakes
1. rake [v] - See also: rake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakes
Literary usage of Rakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"Spending faster than it comes, Beating waiters, bailiffs, duns, Bacchus' s
true-begotten sons, Live the rakes of Mallow. One time nought but claret drinking ..."
2. Sewage Disposal by Leonard Parker Kinnicutt (1919)
"Stationary Screen with Power-driven rakes (copied by permission from Dunbar, 1908).
Bar Screens Cleaned by Mechanically Driven rakes or Brushes. ..."
3. The Legal News by James Kirby (1885)
"(rakes) had been recommended to him (Spink) by MA Chester, of the firm of Thornton &
Chester, millers, of Buffalo ; that previous to that interview with Mr. ..."
4. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"rakes, Wooden. Rake Handles. Rake Teeth. rakes and Weeders, Combined. Rakers, Fire.
Rakers and Cockers, Hay. Rakers and Loaders, Hay. Raking Scrapers. ..."
5. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1905)
"rakes are so called from raking through (or cross-cutting) of Metals and Minerals
of the same Kind or Species. In the Middle of these there is always some ..."
6. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"Do reformed rakes make the best husbands ?" This, on the instant, may appear a
somewhat strange, if not even an inappropriate subject for the employment of ..."
7. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"rakes cannot reckon. 19. Abilities and success of minute philosophers. 20.
Happy effects of the minute philosophy in particular instances. 21. ..."
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