Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
rake out en · VERB
Meanings
-
To clean by removing material with a rake.
Please rake out the stables tomorrow.
-
(intransitive) To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.
When you intend a Flight for a Haggard, for the firſt, ſecond and third time make choice of ſuch a place where there are no Cows, Rooks, or the like, to take away all occasion of her raking out ſuch check.
1674, “Of Hawks and Hawking”, in The Gentleman's Recreation:
Forms