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RAKE

Volume 19 · 62 words · 1842 Edition

s a well-known instrument with teeth, by which the ground is divided. See Agriculture.

RAKE of a Ship is all that part of her hull which hangs over both ends of her keel. That which is before is called the fore-rake or rake forward, and that part which is at the setting on of the stern-post is called the rake-oft or afterward.