RAKE Copy link • RAKE 1. s. An agricultural implement, pecten (☞ not rastrum or rastellus; i. e., a hoe): irpex (made of iron, to break the clods, not to hoe the weeds; Vid: Schneider, Caton., L.L., 10, 2, p. 45). A dissolute fellow, homo dissolutus, profligatus, perditus. 2. v. To clear with a rake, pectine verrere (Ov., Rem., 192). To rake up (a crop, etc.), pectinibus legere aliquid (Col., 2, 21). To scour, stringere, destringere. To rake up = to collect, Vid.