Betydning av rake på norsk

• 0 a tool for gathering dead leaves, cut grass, etc. or for making the ground level

  • a garden rake en hagerive

• 1 to use a rake

  • Rake the soil well before planting. Rak godt på bakken før planting.

• 2 earning a lot of money

  • He’s raking it in now that he’s on TV. Han håver inn nå som han er på TV.

• 3 a tool which consists of a usually metal bar with teeth at the end of a long handle, used for smoothing earth, gathering eg leaves together etc

  • a garden rake.

• 4 any similar tool

  • a croupier’s rake in a casino.

• 5 the act of raking

  • He gave the soil a rake.

• 6 to smooth or gather with a rake

  • I’ll rake these grass-cuttings up later.

• 7 (often with out) to remove the ashes from (a fire) with a poker etc.

• 8 to fire guns at (a target) from one end of it to the other

  • The soldiers raked the entire village with machine-gun fire.