Rake

Rake may refer to:

Science and technology

Tools

  • Rake (tool), a horticultural and fire prevention implement, a long-handled tool with tines
  • Rake or hay rake, a farm implement
  • Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry
  • Mash rake, a tool used in brewing

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

Arts

Architecture

Television

Place names

People

Other uses

  • Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
  • Another name for the Hooker position in rugby league football
  • A lock picking technique in which a lock pick is slid outwards from the back of a lock to push its pins up
  • The Rake, a fictional creature featured in many Creepypasta stories
  • Raking, a nickname for a home run

See also

  • Reiki, a form of alternative medicine
  • Raking, a weighting method in statistics
  • All pages with titles beginning with Rake
  • All pages with titles containing Rake
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