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rake

Best crossword clue

"Garden tool with teeth"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɹeɪk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aekrStarts with REnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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