Wagon vs. Rake

A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.

A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.

An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.

An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.

(slang) transporting]] prisoners

(rail transport) A freight car on a railway.

; (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.

A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

Example: ‘Thesaurus:promiscuous woman’;

To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.

To travel in a wagon.

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

A freight car on a railway.

A chariot

The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor

van used by police to transport prisoners

a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

a vehicle used for transporting goods or another specified purpose

Example: ‘a breakdown wagon’; ‘a timber wagon’;

a four-wheeled trailer for agricultural use

Example: ‘a hay wagon’;

a railway freight vehicle; a truck

Example: ‘a milk wagon’;

a light horse-drawn vehicle, especially a covered one used by early settlers in North America and elsewhere.

a wheeled cart or hut used as a food stall

Example: ‘a chip wagon’;

a vehicle like a caravan used by Gypsies or circus performers.

short for station wagon

an unpleasant or disliked woman.

A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from carts (which have two wheels) and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles primarily for carrying people, such as carriages.

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

A lot, plenty.

Example: ‘Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.’;

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

Example: ‘The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.’;

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

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

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

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

Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.

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

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

A man habituated to immoral conduct.

A course; direction; stretch.

A range, stray.

Example: ‘a sheep-raik = a sheep-walk’;

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

Example: ‘We raked all the leaves into a pile’;

To search thoroughly.

Example: ‘Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine’;

To spray with gunfire.

Example: ‘the enemy machine guns raked the roadway’;

To claw at; to scratch.

Example: ‘Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.’;

To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

Example: ‘The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.’;

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

(intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

To guide; to direct

(intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.

Example: ‘A mast rakes aft.’;

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

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

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

To run or rove.

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.

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

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

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

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

Example: ‘An illiterate and frivolous old rake.’;

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

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.

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.

To search through; to scour; to ransack.

Example: ‘The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.’;

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

Example: ‘Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.’;

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.

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

Example: ‘One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.’;

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Example: ‘Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.’;

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

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

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

a dissolute man in fashionable society

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

Example: ‘the roof had a steep pitch’;

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

move through with or as if with a rake;

Example: ‘She raked her fingers through her hair’;

level or smooth with a rake;

Example: ‘rake gravel’;

sweep the length of;

Example: ‘The gunfire raked the coast’;

examine hastily;

Example: ‘She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi’;

gather with a rake;

Example: ‘rake leaves’;

scrape gently;

Example: ‘graze the skin’;

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.

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

an act of raking

Example: ‘giving the lawn a rake’;

a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits

Example: ‘a merry Restoration rake’;

the angle at which a thing slopes

Example: ‘you can adjust the rake of the backrests’;

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

a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together

Example: ‘we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking’;

a herd of colts.

draw together with a rake or similar implement

Example: ‘they started raking up hay’;

make (ground) smooth with a rake

Example: ‘I sometimes rake over the allotment’;

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

Example: ‘her fingers raked Bill's face’;

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

Example: ‘she raked a comb through her hair’;

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

Example: ‘the road was raked with machine-gun fire’;

move across something with a long sweeping movement

Example: ‘his icy gaze raked mercilessly over Lissa's slender figure’;

search or rummage through something

Example: ‘he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note’;

set (something) at a sloping angle

Example: ‘the floor is steeply raked’;

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

Example: ‘her long clipper bow and raked mast’;

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