Rake Explained

Rake may refer to:

Common meanings

• Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines
• Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct
• Rake (poker), the commission taken by the house when hosting a poker game
• Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare

Science and technology

• Rake receiver, a radio receiver
• Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a bedding plane and the strike line in geology

Transport

• Rake, the caster angle of a bicycle or motorcycle
• Rake, the difference between the front and rear ride heights of a car
• Rake (train), a line of coupled passenger coaches, or freight wagons, or railcars (excluding the locomotive) that typically move together

Mathematics and computing

• Rake (angle), a mathematical definition
• Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships
• Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language

Music

• Rake (band), a former American art rock/noise rock musical ensemble
• The Rakes, a former English post-punk band formed in 2003
• "Rake", a track from A Sun Came, the 1999 debut album of Sufjan Stevens

Television

• Rake (Australian TV series), a 2010–2018 comedy-drama series
• Rake (American TV series), a 2014 adaptation of the Australian series

Place names

• Rake, West Sussex, a village in England
• Rake Brook, a tributary of the River Roddlesworth in Lancashire, England
• Rake, Kostel, a settlement in the Kostel municipality in Slovenia
• Rake, Iowa, a small town in the United States

People

• Rake (surname)
• Rake Yohn, stage name of Edward Webb (born 1975), a member of the CKY and Jackass crews
• Rake (singer), a Japanese singer-songwriter

Other uses

• Rake (architecture), the slope of the roof at the end of a gable
• Rake (theatre), a theatre stage that slopes upward away from the audience
• Another name for the hooker position in rugby league football
• A lock picking technique
• The Rake, a fictional creature featured in many Creepypasta stories
• Raking, a nickname for a home run

See also

• Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry
• Mash rake, a tool used in brewing
• The Rake of Rivera, a nickname for the Italian tycoon Gianni Agnelli
• Reiki, a form of alternative medicine
• Raking, a weighting method in statistics