Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 5
Rail (n.) (Arch.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
Rail (n.) (Railroad) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
Rail (n.) (Naut.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
Rail (n.) (Naut.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.
Rail (n.) A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail; a place not accesible by rail.
Rail (n.) A railing.
Rail fence. See under Fence.
Rail guard. (a) A device attached to the front of a locomotive on each side for clearing the rail of obstructions.
Rail guard. (b) A guard rail. See under Guard.
Rail joint (Railroad), A splice connecting the adjacent ends of rails, in distinction from a chair, which is merely a seat. The two devices are sometimes united. Among several hundred varieties, the fish joint is standard. See Fish joint, under Fish.
Rail train (Iron & Steel Manuf.), A train of rolls in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets.
Railed (imp. & p. p.) of Rail.
Railing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rail.
Rail (v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.
Rail (v. t.) To range in a line.
Rail (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
Note: The common European water rail ({Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen ({Rallus longirostris, var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail ({Rallus elegans) (called also fresh-water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail ({Rallus Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail ({Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Land rail (Zool.), The corncrake.
Rail (v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on. -- Shak.
And rail at arts he did not understand. -- Dryden.
Lesbia forever on me rails. -- Swift.
Rail (v. t.) To rail at. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Rail (v. t.) To move or influence by railing. [R.]
Rail the seal from off my bond. -- Shak.
Rail (n.) A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: railing, rail].
Rail (n.) Short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety".
Rail (n.) A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll [syn: track, rail, rails, runway].
Rail (n.) A horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal).
Rail (n.) Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud.
Rail (v.) Complain bitterly [syn: rail, inveigh].
Rail (v.) Enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves" [syn: rail, rail in].
Rail (v.) Provide with rails; "The yard was railed".
Rail (v.) Separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace" [syn: rail, rail off].
Rail (v.) Convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium".
Rail (v.) Travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" [syn: train, rail].
Rail (v.) Lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here".
Rail (v.) Fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish".
Rail (v.) Spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail].
Rail (v.) Criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: fulminate, rail].
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Railer (n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Railing (a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.
Angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. -- 2 Pet. ii. 11.
Railing (n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails, together with vertical supports. The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height, and multiple vertical supports. Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls.
Railing (n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails.
Railing (n.) A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: railing, rail].
Railing (n.) Material for making rails or rails collectively.
Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Raillery (n.) 開玩笑，逗趣 Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Let raillery be without malice or heat. -- B. Jonson.
Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. -- Addison.
Raillery (n.) Light teasing repartee [syn: banter, raillery, give-and-take, backchat].
Raillery (n.) [ U ] (Formal) （善意的）戲謔，批評，揶揄 Joking or laughing at someone in a friendly way.
Railleur (n.) A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
Railroad (n.) Alt. of Railway.
Railway (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway.
Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States.
Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably:
Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc.
Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable.
Ferry railway, A submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, for carrying a train of cars across a water course.
Gravity railway, A railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines.
Railway brake, A brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives.
Railway car, A large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
Railway carriage, A railway passenger car. [Eng.]
Railway scale, A platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer.
Railway spine (Med.), An abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury.
Underground railroad Underground railway. (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city.
Underground railroad Underground railway. (b) Formerly, a system of cooperation among certain active antislavery people in the United States prior to 1866, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada.
Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was usually used.] "Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t of the underground railroad." -- W. D. Howells.
Railway (n.) Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight [syn: railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system].
Railway (n.) A line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track" [syn: railroad track, railroad, railway].
Railway. () A road made with iron rails or other suitable materials.
Railway. () Railways are to be constructed and used as directed by the legislative acts creating them.
Railway. () In general, a railroad company may take lands for the purpose of making a road when authorized by the charter, by paying a just value for the same. 8 S. & M. 649.
Railway. () For most purposes a railroad is a public highway, but it may be the subject of private property, and it has been held that it may be sold as such, unless the sale be forbidden by the legislature; not the franchise, but the land constituting the road. 5 Iredell, 297. In. general, however, the public can only have a right of way for it is not essential that the public should enjoy the land itself, namely, its treasures, minerals, and the like, as these would add nothing to the convenience of the public.
Railway. () Railroad companies, like all other principals, are liable for the acts of their agents, while in their employ, but they can not be made responsible for accidents which could not be avoided. 2 Iredell, 234; 2 McMullan, 403.
Railroading (n.) The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
Raiment (n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
Raiment (n.) An article of dress.
Rain (n. & v.) Reign.
Rain (n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
Rained (imp. & p. p.) of Rain.
Raining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rain.
Rain (n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
Rain (n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
Rain (v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
Rain (v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Rainbowed (a.) Formed with or like a rainbow.
Raindeer (n.) See Reindeer.
Raindrop (n.) 雨點，雨滴 [C] A drop of rain.
Rainfall (n.) 降雨，下雨；降雨量 [U] [C] A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. -- Hooker.
Rainfall (n.) Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: rain, rainfall].
Rainforest (n.) （熱帶）雨林 A forest with heavy annual rainfall [syn: rain forest, rainforest].
Raininess (n.) 多雨 The state of being rainy.
Raininess (n.) (Of weather) The badness of the weather; "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather" [syn: foulness, raininess].
Rainless (a.) 缺少雨的；無雨的 Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.
Rainless (a.) Lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies".
Rain-tight (a.) So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.
Rainy (a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Rainy (a.) (Of weather) Wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: showery, rainy].
Raip (n.) A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod. [Scot.]
Rais (n.) Same as 2d Reis.
Compare: Reis
Reis (n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. [Written also rais and ras.]
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Raisable (a.) Capable of being raised.
Raisable (a.) Capable of being raised; "the roadster had a raisable sunroof" [syn: raisable, raiseable].
Raised (imp. & p. p.) of Raise.
Raising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively:
Raise (v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. -- Clarendon.
The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. -- Sir W. Temple.
Raise (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
Raise (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence:
Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. -- Job xiv. 12.
Raise (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. -- Ps. cvii. 25.
Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. -- Dryden.
Raise (v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? -- Acts xxvi. 8.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically:
Raise (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
I will raise forts against thee. -- Isa. xxix. 3.
Raise (v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." -- Chaucer.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." -- Johnson's Dict.
Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children.
I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. -- Paulding.
Raise (v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. -- Deut. xviii. 18.
God vouchsafes to raise another worldFrom him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. -- Milton.
Raise (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
Thou shalt not raise a false report. -- Ex. xxiii. 1.
Raise (v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. -- Dryden.
Raise (v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. -- Spectator.
Raise (v. t.) (Naut.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
Raise (v. t.) (Naut.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
Raise (v. t.) (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it. -- Burrill.
To raise a blockade (Mil.), To remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
To raise a siege, To relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
To raise steam, To produce steam of a required pressure.
To raise the wind, To procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.]
To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, To cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang]
Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite.
Raise (n.) The amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase].
Raise (n.) An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall].
Raise (n.) Increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); "I'll see your raise and double it".
Raise (n.) The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave].
Raise (v.) Raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread".
Raise (v.) Raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down].
Raise (v.) Cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry".
Raise (v.) Collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college".
Raise (v.) Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce].
Raise (v.) Bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent].
Raise (v.) Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth].
Raise (v.) Move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: lift, raise]
Raise (v.) Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down].
Raise (v.) Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke].
Raise (v.) Create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain".
Raise (v.) Raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate].
Raise (v.) Increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" [syn: enhance, heighten, raise].
Raise (v.) Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" [syn: promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate] [ant: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate].
Raise (v.) Cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread" [syn: raise, leaven, prove].
Raise (v.) Bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level.
Raise (v.) Bet more than the previous player.
Raise (v.) Cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise].
Raise (v.) Put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic" [syn: raise, bring up].
Raise (v.) Pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'".
Raise (v.) Activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny".
Raise (v.) Establish radio communications with; "They managed to raise Hanoi last night".
Raise (v.) Multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3.
Raise (v.) Bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges".
Raise (v.) Invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" [syn: raise, lift].
Raise (v.) Put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: lift, raise].
Raise (v.) Cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts" [syn: resurrect, raise, upraise].
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Raised (a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.
Raised (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.
Raised beach. See under Beach, n.
Raised (a.) Located or moved above the surround or above the normal position; "a raised design"; "raised eyebrows" [ant: lowered].
Raised (a.) Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery; "brocaded silk"; "an embossed satin"; "embossed leather"; "raised needlework"; "raised metalwork" [syn: brocaded, embossed, raised].
Raised (a.) Increased in amount or degree; "raised temperature" [syn: raised(a), elevated].
Raiser (n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
Raiser (n.) A bridge partner who increases the partner's bid.
Raiser (n.) Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: agriculturist, agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser].
Raisin (n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Raisin (n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Raisin tree (Bot.), The common red currant bush, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. [Eng.] -- Dr. Prior.
Raisin (n.) Dried grape.
Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
Raising (n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]
Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Raising bee, A bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] -- W. Irving.
Raising hammer, A hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal.
Raising plate (Carp.), The plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.
Raising (a.) Increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate".
Raising (n.) The event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation, lift, raising].
Raising (n.) The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: raising, rearing, nurture].
Raising (n.) Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing].
Raisonne (a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.
Raivel (n.) (Weaving) A separator. [Scot.]
Raj (n.) Reign; rule. [India]
Raj (n.) British dominion over India (1757-1947).
Raja (n.) Same as Rajah.
Raja (n.) A prince or king in India [syn: raja, rajah].
Raja (n.) Type genus of the family Rajidae [syn: Raja, genus Raja].
Rajah (a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts. [India]
Rajahship (n.) The office or dignity of a rajah.
Rajpoot (n.) Alt. of Rajput.
Rajput (n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.
Rajpoot (n.) A member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India [syn: Rajput, Rajpoot].
Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
Rake (n.) [Perhaps a different word.] (Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.
Raked (imp. & p. p.) of Rake.
Raking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake.
Rake (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
Rake (v. t.) Hence: To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
Rake (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
Rake (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
The statesman rakes the town to find a plot. -- Swift.
Rake (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Like clouds that rake the mountain summits. -- Wordsworth.
Rake (v. t.) (Mil.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
To rake up. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes.
To rake up. (b) To bring up; to search out and bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.
Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words. -- Dryden.
Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. ; especially.
Rake (n.) (Naut.) The inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Raking course (Bricklaying), A course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.
Rake (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
An illiterate and frivolous old rake. -- Macaulay.