Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rake \Rake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Raking}.] [AS. racian. See 1st {Rake}.]
   1. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;
      as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

   2. Hence: To collect or draw together with laborious
      industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together;
      as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous
      tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

   3. To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for
      the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or
      for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a
      flower bed.

   4. To search through; to scour; to ransack.

            The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
                                                  --Swift.

   5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and
      lightly, as a rake does.

            Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.
                                                  --Wordsworth.

   6. (Mil.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length
      of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the
      stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of
      the deck.

   {To rake up}.
      (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and
          cover with ashes.
      (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again;
          as, to rake up old scandals.

Raking \Rak"ing\, n.
   1. The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space
      with a rake.

   2. A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the
      quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once
      over a space with a rake.