rake
//reɪk//
Noun
A garden tool with a long handle and a row of metal or wooden teeth, used for gathering leaves, smoothing soil, or loosening ground.
I used a rake to gather the fallen leaves in the garden.
A similar tool used for other purposes, such as a croupier's tool for gathering chips at a gambling table.
The croupier used a rake to gather the chips from the table.
Synonym
Verb
To gather, collect, or move something using a rake or similar sweeping motion.
She raked the fallen leaves into a pile.
To search through something thoroughly or systematically.
She raked through the drawers looking for her keys.
To sweep gunfire or a beam of light across an area.
The searchlight raked the dark waters of the harbor.
Noun
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or dissolute habits; a libertine.
The novel's protagonist was a notorious rake who squandered his fortune on gambling and women.