Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
Sir P. Sidney.
Rake, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. raka to reach, and E. reach.] The inclination
of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a
staircase, etc.; especially (Naut.), the inclination of a mast or
funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to
the keel.
Rake, v. i. To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes
aft.
Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between
the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.
Rake, n. [OE. rakel rash; cf. Icel. reikall wandering, unsettled, reika
to wander.] A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.
An illiterate and frivolous old rake.
Macaulay.
Rake, v. i. 1. [Icel. reika. Cf. Rake a debauchee.] To walk about; to
gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]
2. [See Rake a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a dissolute,
debauched life. Shenstone.
To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while
hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk.
Encyc. Brit.
Rake"hell` (rk"hl`), n. [See Rakel.] A lewd, dissolute fellow; a
debauchee; a rake.
It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a
rakehell do not go together.
Barrow.
{ Rake"hell`, Rake"hell`y (-), } a. Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.
[Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
Ra"kel (rä"kl), a. [OE. See Rake a debauchee.] Hasty; reckless; rash.
[Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Rak"er (rk"r), n. [See 1st Rake.] 1. One who, or that which, rakes; as:
(a) A person who uses a rake. (b) A machine for raking grain or hay by
horse or other power. (c) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.