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a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil a dissolute man in fashionable society gather with a rake; "rake leaves" level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel" move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair" sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast" degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch" scrape gently; "graze the skin" examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" |
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