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Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage


Science and technology

* Rake receiver, a radio receiver * Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a bedding plane and the strike line in geology


Tools

* Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines *
Fire rake A fire rake is a wildland fire fighting tool. A fire rake has a wooden or fiberglass handle with a rake head consisting of four to six sharp, serrated, triangular steel blades. It is used to rake a fire break with the sharp teeth, enabling it t ...
, a heavy-duty variant of the “normal” rake, used for fire prevention * Rake or hay rake, a farm implement * Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry * Mash rake, a tool used in brewing


Transport

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Rake Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage Science and technology * Rake receiver, a radio receiver * Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a ...
, the caster angle of a bicycle or motorcycle *
Rake Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage Science and technology * Rake receiver, a radio receiver * Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a ...
, the difference between the front and rear ride heights of a car * Rake (train), a line of coupled passenger coaches, or freight wagons, or railcars (excluding the locomotive) that typically move together


Mathematics and computing

* Rake (angle), mathematical definition *
Rake (cellular automaton) A rake, in the lexicon of cellular automata, is a type of ''puffer train'', which is an automaton that leaves behind a trail of debris. In the case of a rake, however, the debris left behind is a stream of spaceships, which are automata that "t ...
, a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships * Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game * Rake (software), a variant of the ''make'' program coded in the Ruby programming language


Arts


Architecture

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Rake (architecture) In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
, the slope of the roof at the end of a gable


Television

* ''Rake'' (Australian TV series), an Australian television series that commenced airing in 2010 * ''Rake'' (U.S. TV series), an American adaptation of the Australian series of the same name that commenced airing in 2014


Place names

* Rake, Iowa, a small town in the United States *
Rake, West Sussex Rogate is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, in the Western Rother valley. The village is on the A272 road west of Midhurst and east of Petersfield, Hampshire. The civil parish includes the villages o ...
, a village in England * Rake, Kostel, a settlement in the Kostel municipality in Slovenia


People

* Rake Yohn, a member of the CKY and Jackass crews * Rake (singer), a Japanese singer-songwriter * The Rake of Rivera, a nickname for the Italian tycoon Gianni Agnelli


Other uses

* Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare * Another name for the
Hooker Hooker may refer to: People * Hooker (surname) Places Antarctica * Mount Hooker (Antarctica) * Cape Hooker (Antarctica) * Cape Hooker (South Shetland Islands) New Zealand * Hooker River * Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in the Southern Alps * Hoo ...
position in rugby league football * A lock picking technique in which a lock pick is slid outwards from the back of a lock to push its pins up * The Rake, a fictional creature featured in many Creepypasta stories * Raking, a nickname for a home run


See also

* Reiki, a form of alternative medicine *
Raking Raking (also called "raking ratio estimation" or " iterative proportional fitting") is the statistical process of adjusting data sample weights of a contingency table to match desired marginal totals. References {{Statistics-stub Estimation m ...
, a weighting method in statistics {{disambig