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.
- The "rake", the artificial slope of a theatre stage.
- 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, also castor angle, the angle between the steering axis and the vertical on a motorcycle.
- Rake (Building term), the slope of the roof at the end of a gable.
- Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships.
- Rake (computer programming), a tool for running common development tasks used in the Ruby on Rails web application development framework.
- A guitar-playing method involving muted notes.
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.
- Rake (band), a noise rock/avant-garde musical ensemble from Northern Virginia, USA.
- A Consist (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.