rake – English noun declension

English noun forms of rake

Noun: rake
Singularrake
Pluralrakes

Sample Sentences

  • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:]
  • I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot). [1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls. [2003 August 19, Ilmari Karonen, “Inquiries about Conway's game of life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes. [2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:]
  • Plus, his ever-increasing rake of mules were outgrowing the small parcel of acreage he had inherited in Tennessee. [2020, Barbara L. Wyckoff, Who Was Victoria Silkee:]
  • making the total payload of a typical rake of mules about 20 times greater than that of even the strongest flameme. [2003, Mexico and the United States: Politics, local - Zoot suit riots, Marshall Cavendish, page 830:]
  • But not to trouble the reader with a farther account of the particulars of this melancholy part of our journey; I shall only fay, that with infinite toil and danger, and by the assistance of God Almighty, we overcame all difficulty, and at last got clear of the dismal and inhofpitable mountains of Nicaragua, and paffed by the fide of a favanna, on a rifing ground, where two rakes of mules were grazing. [1794, John Cockburn, The Unfortunate Englishmen: or, a Faithful narrative of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, and five other English mariners ..., Hamilton & Company, page 69:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. The English word is cognate with Danish rage (chiefly regional), Middle Dutch rāke, rēke (modern Dutch raak, reek (both regional), riek (“pitchfork, rake”)), Middle Low German rāke, racke (modern German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”)), Old High German rehho, rech (Middle High German reche, modern German Rechen (“rake”)), Old Norse reka (“shovel”) (modern Icelandic reka (“shovel”)), Old Saxon recho, Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“rake; (long) straight section of a road”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'rake', Old English Nouns 'raca', Dutch Nouns 'raak', German Nouns 'Rechen', Old Norse Nouns 'reka', Icelandic Nouns 'reka', Swedish Nouns 'raka'.

Verbs referencing "rake"

German Nouns Rechen.