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A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

The movement of animals while grazing.

The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.

A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

To walk; to roam, to wander.

Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.

To roam or wander through (somewhere).

A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

The act of raking.

Something that is raked.

To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

Example: She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.

A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.

A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

(originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

Example: The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.

(systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

Rate of progress; pace, speed.

To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.

Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.

(specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).

The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.

Senses relating to watercraft.

To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.

Example: A mast rakes aft.

Senses relating to watercraft.

A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.

To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.