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Substantiivit

1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
2. (provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.
3. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
4. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular
5. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
6. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.
7. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
8. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
9. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
10. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
11. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
12. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
13. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

Verbit

1. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.
2. (UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
3. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
4. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
5. (UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct
7. To search thoroughly.
8. To spray with gunfire.
9. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
10. To claw at; to scratch.
11. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
12. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.