Rake (disambiguation)
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Rake may refer to:
- Rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
- Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
- Rake (tool), a long-handled tool with tines
- Rake, Iowa
- Rake receiver, a radio receiver
- The Rake, a Minnesota literary magazine
- Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
- Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game
- Rake, a guitar playing technique, where one or more strings are muted before the intended notes when played
- For machinery and gates, "raked" means slanted; for example, the angle of the steering post of a bicycle to the vertical is its "rake angle"
- Rake (baseball), to hit a ball on the bat's sweet spot; its echo sounds like a clean sweep of a garden rake
See also
- The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
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