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# rake

«rake» in Mova's school dictionary: **a garden tool with a long handle and a row of teeth or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a rake, rakes); verb (rake, rakes, raked, raking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rake is a garden tool with a long handle and a row of teeth or prongs at the end for gathering leaves or smoothing soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#m1)

2) To rake means to use a rake to gather things or make soil flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#m2)

3) To rake through something means to search it carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#m3)

4) To rake in money means to get a lot of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#m4)

5) To rake a fire means to stir its ashes and embers with a rake-like tool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday and safety: in autumn people rake up fallen leaves; always leave a rake with its teeth facing down, because if you step on the teeth the handle can fly up and hit your face (the joke in cartoons is a real danger). In gardening lessons you rake soil before planting seeds. Phrases: «rake up leaves», «rake through», «rake in», «as thin as a rake».

### examples

- We raked the leaves into a big pile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x1)
- Then we jumped in the pile of leaves! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x2)
- Leave the rake with its prongs facing down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x3)
- Dad raked the soil flat before we planted the seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x4)
- She raked through the box looking for her lost earring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x5)
- My brother is as thin as a rake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x6)
- The cake sale raked in lots of money for the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x7)
- The rake leaned against the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x8)
- The goodman was taking off his breeches, and the goodwife raking the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a rake, rakes». Past: «raked». «As thin as a rake» means very thin. A rake has many teeth; a hoe has one flat blade; a spade digs.

### In the corpora

- [A rake left with its teeth up can swing its handle into your face when stepped on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/13/)
- [Use garden tools only with a grown-up; lay a rake teeth down and carry shears closed and pointing down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.