Definitions
A toothed garden tool used for gathering leaves or soil.
Word origin
From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).
Used in a sentence
“That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.”
“The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.”
“She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Garden tool with teeth”4 letters
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