Rake
Rake may refer to:
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Common meanings
- Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines
- Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct
- Rake (poker), the commission taken by the house when hosting a poker game
- Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
Science and technology
- Rake receiver, a radio receiver
- Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a bedding plane and the strike line in geology
Transport
- Rake, the caster angle of a bicycle or motorcycle
- Rake, the difference between the front and rear ride heights of a car
- Rake (train), a line of coupled passenger coaches, or freight wagons, or railcars (excluding the locomotive) that typically move together
Mathematics and computing
- Rake (angle), a mathematical definition
- Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships
- Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
Music
- Rake (band), a former American art rock/noise rock musical ensemble
- The Rakes, a former English post-punk band formed in 2003
- "Rake", a track from A Sun Came, the 1999 debut album of Sufjan Stevens
Television
- Rake (Australian TV series), commenced airing in 2010
- Rake (U.S. TV series), an American adaptation of the Australian series of the same name that commenced airing in 2014
Place names
- Rake, West Sussex, a village in England
- Rake Brook, a tributary of the River Roddlesworth in Lancashire, England
- Rake, Kostel, a settlement in the Kostel municipality in Slovenia
- Rake, Iowa, a small town in the United States
People
- Rake (surname)
- Rake Yohn, stage name of Edward Webb (born 1975), a member of the CKY and Jackass crews
- Rake (singer), a Japanese singer-songwriter
Other uses
- Rake (architecture), the slope of the roof at the end of a gable
- Rake (theatre), a theatre stage that slopes upward away from the audience
- Another name for the hooker position in rugby league football
- A lock picking technique
- The Rake, a fictional creature featured in many Creepypasta stories
- Raking, a nickname for a home run
See also
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- Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry
- Mash rake, a tool used in brewing
- The Rake of Rivera, a nickname for the Italian tycoon Gianni Agnelli
- Reiki, a form of alternative medicine
- Raking, a weighting method in statistics
- All pages with titles beginning with Rake
- All pages with titles containing Rake
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