Rake vs Hake - What's the difference?
rake | hake |
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
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*: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.
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(lb) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
(lb) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
(lb) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
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(lb) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
(lb) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
To search thoroughly.
* Dryden
* Jonathan Swift
To spray with gunfire.
To claw at; to scratch.
* Wordsworth
To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
(obsolete) To guide; to direct
To incline from a perpendicular direction.
A man habituated to immoral conduct.
(UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
(provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.
(provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.
(provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.
A hook; a pot-hook.
A kind of weapon; a pike.
(in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera , Merluccius , and allies.
A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
* 1882 , P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine'', in the ''Adrian City Directories :
(UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
* 1886 , English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52
As nouns the difference between rake and hake
is that rake is a garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil while hake is a hook; a pot-hook.As verbs the difference between rake and hake
is that rake is to use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from while hake is to loiter; to sneak.rake
English
{, style="float: right; clear:right;" , , , }Etymology 1
(etyl) raca, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (rail transport)Derived terms
* thin as a rakeVerb
(rak)- We raked all the leaves into a pile
- Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
- raking in Chaucer for antiquated words
- The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
- the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
- Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.
- like clouds that rake the mountain summits
- The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.
- Pas could not stay, but over him did rake .
Synonyms
* (search thoroughly) comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scourEtymology 2
From (etyl) raken, from (etyl) .Verb
(rak)- A mast rakes aft.
Etymology 3
Shortening of rakehell, possibly fromNoun
(en noun)- We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator
Synonyms
*Verb
(rak)- (Shenstone)
Etymology 4
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- a sheep-raik'' = a ''sheep-walk
Verb
(rak)References
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----hake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* codling, squirrel hakeHyponyms
* (gadoid fish) European hake (Merluccius merluccius ), American silver hake, whiting (Etymology 3
(en)Noun
(en noun)- The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake' on the yard. [...] take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the ' hake to dry.
Etymology 4
Verb
- She'd as well been at school as haking about.