Rake vs. Rack
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.
Racknoun
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
Racknoun
Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.
Racknoun
(nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
Racknoun
A bunk.
Racknoun
A distaff.
Racknoun
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
Racknoun
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
Racknoun
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
Racknoun
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
Racknoun
A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
Racknoun
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
Racknoun
A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
Racknoun
A woman's breasts.
Racknoun
A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
Racknoun
A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
Racknoun
A grate on which bacon is laid.
Racknoun
(obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
Racknoun
(algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
Racknoun
(slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
Racknoun
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
Racknoun
A fast amble.
Racknoun
(obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
Rackverb
To place in or hang on a rack.
Rackverb
To torture (someone) on the rack.
Rackverb
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
Rackverb
(figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
Rackverb
To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
Rackverb
(slang) To strike a male in the testicles.
Rackverb
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
Rackverb
(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
Rackverb
(nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Rackverb
To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round
Rackverb
To stretch a person's joints.
Rackverb
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
Rackverb
To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
Rackverb
(brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
Rackverb
(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
Racknoun
Same as Arrack.
Racknoun
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
Racknoun
A wreck; destruction.
Racknoun
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
Racknoun
A fast amble.
Racknoun
An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
Racknoun
An instrument for bending a bow.
Racknoun
A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
Racknoun
That which is extorted; exaction.
Rackverb
To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
Rackverb
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; - said of a horse.
Rackverb
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
Rackverb
To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
Rackverb
To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
Rackverb
To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
Rackverb
To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
Rackverb
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Racknoun
framework for holding objects
Racknoun
rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
Racknoun
the destruction or collapse of something;
Racknoun
an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
Racknoun
a support for displaying various articles;
Racknoun
a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
Rackverb
go at a rack;
Rackverb
stretch to the limits;
Rackverb
put on a rack and pinion;
Rackverb
obtain by coercion or intimidation;
Rackverb
run before a gale
Rackverb
fly in high wind
Rackverb
draw off from the lees;
Rackverb
torment emotionally or mentally
Rackverb
work on a rack;
Rackverb
seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
Rackverb
torture on the rack
Racknoun
a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things
Racknoun
a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.
Racknoun
a vertically barred frame for holding animal fodder
Racknoun
a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something
Racknoun
an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was stretched by turning rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied.
Racknoun
a triangular structure for positioning the balls in pool.
Racknoun
a single game of pool.
Racknoun
a woman's breasts
Racknoun
a set of antlers
Racknoun
a bed.
Racknoun
a horse's gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, and all four hoofs are off the ground together at certain moments.
Racknoun
a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds
Racknoun
a joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs.
Rackverb
cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to
Rackverb
torture (someone) on the rack.
Rackverb
place in or on a rack
Rackverb
move by a rack and pinion.
Rackverb
raise (rent) above a fair or normal amount.
Rackverb
oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.
Rackverb
(of a horse) move with a rack gait.
Rackverb
go away
Rackverb
(of a cloud) be driven before the wind
Rackverb
draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel
