(rāk) noun
A toothed implement for drawing together loose material, or making a surface loose.
—v. raked, rak·ing v.t.
1. To scrape or gather together with or as with a rake.
2. To smooth, clean, or prepare with a rake: to rake a lawn.
3. To gather by diligent effort; scrape together.
4. To search or examine carefully.
5. To direct heavy gunfire along the length of, as a ship or column of troops; enfilade.
—v.i.
6. To use a rake.
7. To scrape or pass roughly or violently: with across, over, etc.
8. To make a search.
—to rake in Colloq. To earn or acquire (money, etc.) in large quantities. [OE raca]
—rak′er noun
TYPES OF RAKES
a. Refuse.
b. Clam.
c. Garden.
d. Steel lawn.
e. Broom lawn.

(rāk) v. raked, rak·ing v.i.
To lean from the perpendicular, as a ship's masts.
—v.t. To cause to lean; incline.
—noun Inclination from the perpendicular or horizontal, as of the sustaining surfaces of an airplane, or the edge of a cutting tool. [Origin uncertain. Cf. G ragen project.]
—raked adjective

(rāk) noun
A dissolute, lewd person; debauchee.
—v.i. raked, rak·ing To play the rake; live a lewd, dissolute life: with it. [Short for RAKEHELL]

(rāk) v.i. raked, rak·ing
1. To hunt with the nose to the ground, thus following by track rather than by wind: said of hunting dogs.
2. To fly after game: said of hawks; also, to fly wide of the game. [OE racian go forward, proceed]