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What does the word rake mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To scrape together.

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To stir with a rake; use a rake; make a search; ran sack.

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To fire along the length of, as of a vessel or a line of soldiers.

Part of speech: verb intransitive

To lean, as a mast; inclinc.

Part of speech: noun

A toothed implement for drawing together loose material, or smoothing a surface.

Part of speech: noun

Inclination from the perpendicular.

Part of speech: noun

A dissolute, lewd man.

Usage examples for rake

A boy does not care whether his sweetheart's father is a tinker or a rake; but a man, and an only son, who has reached an age when he can understand what his family and society and his profession demand of him, cares a great deal. – Furze the Cruel by John Trevena
The Boy would get up first in the morning, rake out the dead ashes, put on a couple of back- logs, bank them with ashes, and then build the fire in front. – The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)