Rake

Russian Meaning

English Meaning

1. A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
2. A device that resembles such an implement.
3. To gather or move with or as if with a rake: rake leaves; rake in the gambling chips.
4. To smooth, scrape, or loosen with a rake or similar implement: rake the soil for planting.
5. Informal To gain in abundance. Often used with in: a successful company that raked in the profits.
6. To search or examine thoroughly; ransack.
7. To scrape; scratch.
8. To aim heavy gunfire along the length of.
9. To use a rake.
10. To conduct a thorough search: raked through the files for the misplaced letter.
11. rake up To revive or bring to light; uncover: rake up old gossip.
12. rake over the coals To reprimand severely.
13. An immoral or dissolute person; a libertine.
14. To slant or cause to incline from the perpendicular: propeller blades that rake backward from the shaft; rake a ship's mast.
15. Inclination from the perpendicular: the rake of a jet plane's wings.
16. The angle between the cutting edge of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the working surface to which the tool is applied.