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rake out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To clean by removing material with a rake.
    • Please rake out the stables tomorrow.
  2. (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

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raking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
raked out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
raked out Tense=Past lexicographic
rakes out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic