raking

verbscrape up, hoe

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Word Origin & History

"toothed tool for drawing or scraping things together," Old English raca "rake," earlier ræce, from Proto-Germanic *rak- "gather, heap up" (cf. Old Norse reka "spade, shovel," Old High German rehho, German Rechen "a rake," Gothic rikan "to heap up, collect"), from PIE *reg- (1) "move in a straight line" (cf. Greek oregein "to reach, stretch out," Latin regere "direct, rule; keep straight, guide;" see regal), perhaps via its action, or via the notion of "implement with straight pieces of wood" [Watkins].

Example Sentences for raking

The baker was just raking the fire out of the little door on the side.

There's sacrets in all families to be forgotten—bad to be raking the past.

Yet they were subject to a raking fire that cost them hundreds of casualties.

They were in the wheat-field, busy with the last sheaves; she raking and he binding.

Their beams shot down, raking all our vicinity from this new angle.

Instantly there burst from the blue batteries a tremendous, raking fire.

When they got his range, Pelham moved his two guns and began again a raking fire.

All this time Tucker had been manœuvring to secure a raking (p. 123) position.

For anything we know somebody may be at work, raking it all up, just now.

Such preaching is like raking the garden with the teeth upwards.