Defn: To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. Shenstone. To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; — said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.
RAKEHELL
Rake"hell`, n. Etym: [See Rakel.]
Defn: 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.
RAKEHELL; RAKEHELLY
Rake"hell`, Rake"hell`y, a.
Defn: Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
RAKEL
Ra"kel, a. Etym: [OE. See Rake a debauchee.]
Defn: Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] Chaucer.
— Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RAKER
Rak"er, n. Etym: [See 1st Rake.]
1. One who, or that which, rakes; as: (a) A person who uses a rake. (b) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power. (c) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
2. (Zoöl.)