English words starting with rak

Meanings of Rake:

noun

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.

Usage examples:

Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

Usage examples:

I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

Meanings of Rake someone over the coals:

phrase

Reprimand someone severely.

Usage examples:

He has been raked over the coals by the media

noun

A garden tool with a long handle and pointed parts sticking out in a row at the bottom, used for making earth level or for gathering leaves or cut grass

Usage examples:

Some workers raked leaves in the park.

verb

→  haul sb over the coals

Meanings of Rake up:

phrasal verb

Revive the memory of an incident or period that is best forgotten.

Usage examples:

I don't see the point in raking up the past

Meanings of Rake-in:

phrasal verb

To earn a lot of money

Usage examples:

These huge websites rake in $20 million in a year.

Meanings of Rake-it-in:

phrasal verb

To earn a lot of money

Usage examples:

These huge websites rake in $20 million in a year.

Meanings of Rake-off:

phrasal verb

To take part of the money or profit that someone earns, used especially when this seems unfair or too much

Usage examples:

The fund management business rakes off a significant chunk of an investment's market return in annu…

Meanings of Raked:

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

Usage examples:

I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun

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.

Usage examples:

Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

adjective

Sloping

Usage examples:

A steeply raked stage, sloping down towards the audience, raked wings, a raked mast

Meanings of Rakehell:

noun

A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.

Usage examples:

Her dissolute rakehell of a son, sir felix

Meanings of Rakehellish:

adjective

= rakehelly .

Meanings of Rakehells:

noun

A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.

Usage examples:

Her dissolute rakehell of a son, sir felix

Meanings of Rakehelly:

adjective

Of a person: having the character, appearance, or manner of a rakehell.

Meanings of Rakers:

noun

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Meanings of Rakery:

noun

Behaviour or habits characteristic of a rake; debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy, promiscuity; an instance of this.

Meanings of Rakes:

noun

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.

Usage examples:

Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

Usage examples:

I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

Meanings of Rakeshame:

noun

A disreputable or dissolute person; a rogue.

Meanings of Raki:

noun

A strong alcoholic spirit made in eastern europe or the middle east.

Usage examples:

The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavour…

Meanings of Rakija:

noun

A type of colourless spirit in the balkans distilled from various ingredients, including grape pomace and plums, and often flavoured with herbs or other aromatics.

Meanings of Raking:

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

Usage examples:

I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun

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.

Usage examples:

Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

Meanings of Rakish:

adjective

Having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance.

Usage examples:

He had a rakish, debonair look

Meanings of Rakishly:

adverb

In a confidently careless and informal way

Usage examples:

There was a paintbrush stuck rakishly behind his ear., a small hat trailing peacock feathers sat ra…

Meanings of Rakishness:

noun

The quality of being confidently careless and informal

Usage examples:

They wear tweed caps in various angles of rakishness., the three women are wary of the rakishness o…

Meanings of Raku:

noun

A kind of lead-glazed japanese earthenware, used especially for the tea ceremony.

Usage examples:

Sculpted raku vessels