OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2987

rake

/ɹeɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
angazo • rastrillo
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged…
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📚 noun • entry_id 2988

rake

/ɹeɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
calavera
A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
For honest men delight will take, / To shew you favour for his sake, / Will flatter you; and Fool and Rake / Your steps pursue: / And of your Father's name will make / A snare for…
We have now and then rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of rakes. The misfortune of the thing is, that people dress themselves in what they ha…
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