Rake may refer to:
- Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines
- Rake or hay rake, a farm implement
- Rake, the caster angle of a bicycle or motorcycle
- Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry
- Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships
- Rake (character), a man habituated to immoral conduct
- Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game
- Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a bedding plane and the strike line in geology
- Rake receiver, a radio receiver
- Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
- Rake (train), a physical railway train made up of coaches, or a coupled group of coaches
- Rake (theatre)
- Rake (TV series), an Australian television series
- The Rake, a short story about a cryptid named The Rake that mauls people in their sleep, popular amongst Creepypasta readers.
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Famous quotes containing the word rake:
“A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)
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