step on a rake
To step on the tines of a garden rake, causing the handle of the rake to rise from the ground rapidly, striking the person walking in the face.
noun
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot).
That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.
verb
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
We raked all the leaves into a pile.
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake, / And crown'd the earth with his first touching crowne: [...]
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
noun
The act of raking.
Something that is raked.
Something that is raked.
Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.