rake

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. t. gather, collect; comb, ransack, search, rummage; enfilade, spray with bullets; incline, slope. See assemblage. —n. libertine, roué, rakehell; slope, ramp. See cleanness, obliquity, agriculture.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A debauched person]

Syn. lecher, roué, libertine, playboy, profligate, sensualist, seducer, philanderer, womanizer, gigolo, Don Juan, Casanova, Lothario; see also rascal .

2. [A pronged implement]

Types of rakes include: refuse, clam, lawn, garden, YOrk (trademark), gleaning, moss, hay, buck, stubble, weeding, oyster, horse, revolving, sweep, dump, side-delivery; leaf sweeper; see also tool . v.

1. [To use a rake]

Syn. clear up, collect, scratch, gather, scrape, scrape together, clean up, furrow, comb, weed, clear, grade, level, smooth; see also clean , smooth 1 , sweep .

2. [To sweep with gunfire]

Syn. strafe, machine-gun, blister; see shoot 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

roue, playboy, lecher, swinger, *'make-out artist, womanizer, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, wolf, philanderer.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Deviation from a particular direction: cant1, grade, gradient, heel2, inclination, incline, lean1, list2, slant, slope, tilt, tip2. See RISE, STRAIGHT.

V

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun An immoral or licentious person: libertine, profligate, wanton. See SEX.

VI

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To depart or cause to depart from true vertical or horizontal: cant1, heel2, incline, lean1, list2, slant, slope, tilt, tip2. See STRAIGHT.