Rake vs Hoe - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rake and hoe

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 hoe is an agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

As verbs the difference between rake and hoe

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 hoe is to cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

rake

English

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Etymology 1

(etyl) raca, from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.

*: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.

A lot, plenty.

(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.

(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.

Synonyms

* (rail transport)

Derived terms

* thin as a rake

Verb

(rak)

To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.

We raked all the leaves into a pile

To search thoroughly.

Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine

* Dryden

raking in Chaucer for antiquated words

* Jonathan Swift

The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.

To spray with gunfire.

the enemy machine guns raked the roadway

To claw at; to scratch.

Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.

* Wordsworth

like clouds that rake the mountain summits

To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

* Sir Philip Sidney

Pas could not stay, but over him did rake .

Synonyms

* (search thoroughly) comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scour

Etymology 2

From (etyl) raken, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular

Verb

(rak)

To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

(obsolete) To guide; to direct

To incline from a perpendicular direction.

A mast rakes aft.

Etymology 3

Shortening of rakehell, possibly from

Noun

(en noun)

A man habituated to immoral conduct.

We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator

Synonyms

Verb

(rak)

(UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

(UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

(Shenstone)

Etymology 4

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

(provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.

(provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.

a sheep-raik'' = a ''sheep-walk

Verb

(rak)

(provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

References

Anagrams

* English terms with multiple etymologies ----

hoe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

* 2009 , TRU TV, 28 March:

It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe .

The horned or piked dogfish.

Derived terms

* backhoe

Verb

(d)

(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

to hoe the earth in a garden

Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.

I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.

To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

to hoe corn

Derived terms

* long row to hoe

External links

Etymology 2

From non-rhotic whore.

Alternative forms

* ho

Noun

(en noun)

(US, slang) A prostitute.

* 2002 , Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

[…] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe ) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination

* 2003 , Dan Harrington, The Good Eye

At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(d)

(US, slang) To act as a prostitute.

* 2003 , Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp

Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Usage notes

* Now used only in placenames e.g. "Plymouth Hoe". ----