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