Rake vs. Hoe

Rakenoun

A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.

Rakenoun

A lot, plenty.

Rakenoun

A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

Rakenoun

(cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

Rakenoun

The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.

Rakenoun

A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

Rakenoun

(mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

Rakenoun

Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.

Rakenoun

(geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.

Rakenoun

(roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

Rakenoun

A man habituated to immoral conduct.

Rakenoun

A course; direction; stretch.

Rakenoun

A range, stray.

Rakeverb

To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.

Rakeverb

To search thoroughly.

Rakeverb

To spray with gunfire.

Rakeverb

To claw at; to scratch.

Rakeverb

To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

Rakeverb

To guide; to direct

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.

Rakeverb

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Rakeverb

To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

Rakeverb

Of a dog or hawk, to follow the wrong course; to go wide of the game being pursued.

Rakeverb

To run or rove.

Rakenoun

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, - used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

Rakenoun

A toothed machine drawn by a horse, - used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

Rakenoun

A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; - called also rake-vein.

Rakenoun

The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

Rakenoun

A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.

Rakeverb

To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; - often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

Rakeverb

To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

Rakeverb

To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

Rakeverb

To search through; to scour; to ransack.

Rakeverb

To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

Rakeverb

To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

Rakeverb

To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

Rakeverb

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Rakeverb

To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

Rakeverb

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Rakeverb

To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

Rakenoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Rakenoun

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

Rakenoun

a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

Rakeverb

move through with or as if with a rake;

Rakeverb

level or smooth with a rake;

Rakeverb

sweep the length of;

Rakeverb

examine hastily;

Rakeverb

gather with a rake;

Rakeverb

scrape gently;

Rakenoun

an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.

Rakenoun

an implement similar to a rake used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table.

Rakenoun

an act of raking

Rakenoun

a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits

Rakenoun

the angle at which a thing slopes

Rakenoun

the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.

Rakenoun

a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together

Rakenoun

a herd of colts.

Rakeverb

draw together with a rake or similar implement

Rakeverb

make (ground) smooth with a rake

Rakeverb

scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement

Rakeverb

draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement

Rakeverb

sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light

Rakeverb

move across something with a long sweeping movement

Rakeverb

search or rummage through something

Rakeverb

set (something) at a sloping angle

Rakeverb

(of a ship's mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern

Rakeverb

(of a ship's bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel.

Hoenoun

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

Hoenoun

The horned or piked dogfish.

Hoenoun

alternative spelling of ho.

Hoenoun

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Hoeverb

(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

Hoeverb

(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Hoeverb

alternative spelling of ho.

Hoenoun

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

Hoenoun

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

Hoeverb

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.

Hoeverb

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Hoenoun

a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

Hoeverb

dig with a hoe;