Raker

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  • n. A person who uses a rake.
  • n. A machine for raking grain or hay.
  • n. A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, rakes.
  • n. A person who uses a rake.
  • n. A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
  • n. A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
  • n. See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which rakes.
  • n. A machine for raking hay, straw, etc., by horse or other power.
  • n. An instrument for raking out the ashes from a fire or grate; in locomotives, a self-acting contrivance for cleaning the grate.
  • n. A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's vessel.
  • n. A piece of iron having pointed ends bent at right angles in opposite directions, used for raking out decayed mortar from the joints of old walls, in order to replace it with new mortar.
  • n. A rake-like row of internal branchial arch appendages of some fishes. See gill-raker.
  • n. Something superlative of its kind, as a heavy bet (a ‘plunge’), or a fast rate of speed.
  • Word Usage
    "And pit raker, which was exactly what it sounded like."
    Variant
    gill   
    Rhyme
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