Leaf-gathering tool Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Leaf-gathering tool crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on April 16 2024 Newsday Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Leaf-gathering tool has a total of 4 letters.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | RAKE | Leaf-gathering tool | Newsday |
Definition
| • | An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth. |
| • | A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake. |
| • | A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. |
| • | To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. |
| • | To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town. |
| • | To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed. |
| • | To search through; to scour; to ransack. |
| • | To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. |
| • | To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck. |
| • | To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. |
| • | To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. |
| • | The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. |
| • | the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel. |
| • | To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. |
| • | A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue. |
| • | To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. |
| • | To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. |
Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:
- LA Times: Jun 3, 2024
- Newsday: Apr 16, 2024
- Newsday: Nov 1, 2023
- Newsday: Sep 25, 2023
- USA Today: Sep 16, 2023
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