Rake

Rake may refer to:

• Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines
• Rake or hay rake, a farm implement
• Rake or castor angle – various fork offset angles in bicycle and motorcycle geometry
• 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.

Place names

• Rake, Iowa, a small town in the United States
• Rake, West Sussex, a village in England
• Rake, Slovenia, a settlement in the Kostel municipality in Slovenia

People

• Rake Yohn, a member of the CKY and Jackass crews
• Rake (singer), a Japanese singer-songwriter
• The Rake of Rivera, a nickname for the Italian tycoon Gianni Agnelli

Other uses

• A Rake's Progress, a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
• The Rake's Progress, an English opera by Igor Stravinsky, based on Hogarth's illustrations
• The Rake, a classical menswear magazine published out of Singapore
• Rake (band), a noise rock/avant-garde musical ensemble from Northern Virginia, USA
• Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
• The slope of the roof at the end of a gable
• A guitar-playing method involving muted notes
• Raking, a lock picking technique in which a lock pick is slid outwards from the back of a lock to push its pins up
• The artificial slope of a stage (theatre)

See also

Sounding similar:

• Reiki, a complementary therapy