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A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

See Rake, a mineral vein.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, rakes; as:

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

A vile, dissolute wretch. [Obs.] Milton.

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.

A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

See Crowberry.

One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.

The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.

nt before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.