rakes in English

noun
1
an implement consisting of a pole with a crossbar toothed like a comb at the end, or with several tines held together by a crosspiece, used especially for drawing together cut grass or fallen leaves, or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.
2
a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits.
His brother, after living the dissolute life of a rake , had fled England at the end of the war to escape his debts.
verb
1
collect, gather, or move with a rake or similar implement.
they started raking up hay
synonyms:scrape upcollectgather

Use "rakes" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "rakes" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "rakes", or refer to the context using the word "rakes" in the English Dictionary.

1. The Rakes of Mallow Beauing, belling, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Every raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow, Spending faster than it comes, Beating waiter's bailiffs, duns, Bacchus' true begotten sons, Live the Rakes of Mallow

2. The rakes of mallow Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Every raking, never thinking Live the Rakes of Mallow; Spending faster than it comes Beating waiter's

3. 8 Best Lawn Dethatching Rakes and Tow-Behinds Rebecca Winke 3/23/2021

4. Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Ever raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow; Spending faster than it comes, Beating waiters bailiffs, duns, Bacchus' true begotten sons, Live the Rakes of Mallow

5. Beauing, belling, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Every raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow; Spending faster than it comes, Beating waiter's bailiffs, duns, Bacchus' true begotten sons, Live the Rakes of Mallow

6. 60015 6A11 now Berthed in East Depot split into two rakes back up to the stops

7. Carding effect is taking place between cylinder and doffer because, either the main cylinder clothing rakes through the fibres caught in the doffer clothing, or the doffer clothing rakes thro the fibres on the main cylinder

8. Beauing, belling, dancing, singing, Breaking windows, damning, sinking, Ever raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow

9. High positive radial and axial rakes enable free cutting machining with a fine finish and low horsepower consumption.

10. In essence, you can begin to define rakes and viewing angles of people in the orchestra seating, at will.

11. Tools, scrapers, scissors, shears, knives, clippers (hand instruments), clamps, taps (tools), shovels, rakes, tool belts, blacksmiths' tools, wrenches (tools)

12. It has a large windshield that rakes at a very steep angle molding itself into the glass roof of the car.

13. It was produced by Scott McCarron and Bruce Lietzke, two guys who use nearly identical putters that look like garden rakes.

14. Consumers can buy weeders, rakes and cultivators, cleaning products for fabrics and hard surfaces, personal care products, gifts and more at Agelong…

15. Beguilers have reputations as rakes, thieves, spies, and puppet masters, but they can also be diplomats, peacemakers, or heroic leaders who give hope in desperate situations

16. Hoes, diggers, garden tools, shearers, pliers, clamps, chisels, scissors, knives, rakes, picks, hammers, hand drills, screwdrivers, axes, shovels, saws and saw blades, knives, abrading instruments

17. Marjorie Taylor Greene Rakes In Cash After Twitter Briefly Suspends Her She also wants you to know she’s very, very hurt by being called a racist.

18. Bedchamber Games is the third installment of The Rakes of Cavendish Square, and while this book can certainly be read as a stand alone, I think reading the first book of …

19. • A Croupier or dealer is someone appointed at a gambling table to assist in the conduct of the game • An attendant in a gambling casino who rakes in money or chips and pays winners at a gaming table More crossword answers

20. The Conquhar was a swift, clear-running river coursing over its bed of gneiss, well tucked-in on either side by green hayfields, where the grasshopper for ever "Burred," and the haymakers stopped with elbows on their rakes to watch the passer-by.

21. Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking / The Rakes of Mallow - Melody Before Elisha's gate / Naaman - Melody Before Jehovah's awful throne - Melody Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme / The Faithfulness of God and His Promises - Melody Beggar Boy - Melody Beggar, The - Melody Begone, dull care! - Melody Behold a Stranger at the door! - Melody

22. Since 1975 the farm has been leased to Shropshire Council and is now a working farm museum where visitors can see farm staff care for traditional breeds of poultry and stock, the wheelwright and blacksmith produce goods for the farm, the farrier shoes the work-inghorsesthe woodland craft workers produce Besoms and rakes, and the farmer's wife churns butter by hand just as it would have been

23. In the meantime, as Shadwell relates, the rakes "live as much by their wits as ever; and to avoid the clinking dun of a Boxkeeper, at the end of one act they sneak to the opposite side 'till the end of another; then call the Boxkeeper saucy rascal, ridicule the poet, laugh at the actors, march to the opera, and spunge away the rest of the evening."