rake

• vi. 探す；かき集める；かすめる；かすめる
• vt. 傾ける；探す；掃きかける；熊手でかき集める
• n. a rake; a slant; a money rake; a debauchee; a prodigal son
• n.（レーキ）人名；（英）Rake；（仏）Rakai

古英語のraca, rakeから、原語ゲルマン語*rak, to pile up, to concentrateから、PIE*reg, to straight, to straight outから、語源的にはregregrate, reach, rakeと同じ。

rakehellから略された。

rake

rake: English has three distinct words rake. The oldest, ‘toothed implement’ [OE], goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *rak- or *rek- ‘gather, heap up’, which also produced German rechen ‘rake’. It may be descended ultimately from Indo-European *rog-, *reg- ‘stretch’ (source of Latin regere ‘rule’ and English right), the notion of ‘stretching’ developing via ‘stretch out the hand’ to ‘collect, gather’. Rake ‘slant, inclination’ [17] is of uncertain origin, although it seems likely that it is related to German ragen ‘project’.

It formed the basis of the adjective rakish [19] (inspired originally by the backwardinclined masts on certain fast sailing ships), but this has since become associated with the third rake, ‘dissolute man’ [17]. This was short for the now defunct rakehell [16], which comes from the notion that one would have to search through hell with a rake to find such a bad man.
=> right; rakish

rake (n.1)

"toothed tool for drawing or scraping things together," Old English raca "rake," earlier r?ce, from Proto-Germanic *rak- "gather, heap up" (cognates: Old Norse reka "spade, shovel," Old High German rehho, German Rechen "a rake," Gothic rikan "to heap up, collect"), from PIE *reg- (1) "move in a straight line" (cognates: Greek oregein "to reach, stretch out," Latin regere "direct, rule; keep straight, guide;" see regal), perhaps via its action, or via the notion of "implement with straight pieces of wood" [Watkins].

rake (v.)

mid-13c., "clear (rubbish, grass, etc.) by raking; gather (grain) by raking," from rake (n.1), or from a lost Old English verb related to it, or from a similar Scandinavian source (compare Swedish raka, Danish rage "rake"). Of gunfire from 1630s. Related: Raked; raking. To rake in money or something like it is from 1580s.

rake (n.2)

"debauchee; idle, dissolute person," 1650s, shortening of rakehell. Hogarth's "Rake's Progress" engravings were published in 1735.

1. Rake the soil，press the seed into it，then cover it lightly.

熊手を緩め、種を土に植え、そっと土をかぶせる。

2.The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits.

私有化で多くの企業が大儲けした。

3.Nobody wanted to rake over his past history.

古いことを蒸し返す人はいない。

4.In the autumn I rake up the dead leaves.

秋に私は死の葉を掻き集める。

5. Rake out the cinders before you start a new fire.

再点火前に石炭スラグを掻き出す。