Rake

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Rake may refer to:

• Rake (tool), a long-handled tool with tines
• Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game
• Rake (character), a man habituated to immoral conduct. An archaic term most often found in historical romance novels
• Rake receiver, a radio receiver
• Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
• Rake (angle), various angles in bicycle and motorcycle geometry
• Rake and trail, also castor angle, the angle between the steering axis and the vertical on a motorcycle
• Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships

Rake may also refer to:

• The Rake, a Minnesota literary magazine
• The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
• Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
• The slope of the roof at the end of a gable
• Rake (band), a noise rock/avant-garde musical ensemble from Northern Virginia, USA
• A guitar-playing method involving muted notes
• The artificial slope of a theatre stage
• A train made up primarily of coaches
• Raking, a lock picking technique in which a lock pick is slid outwards from the back of a lock to push its pins up
• Rake Yohn - a member of the CKY and Jackass crews

Places named Rake:

• Rake, Iowa, a city in Iowa, USA
• Rake, West Sussex, a village in West Sussex, England

Rake sounds similar to:

• Reiki, a complementary therapy