rake (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit. rādo, si, sum, 3 (to scrape in any way, whence rastrum, rastellus)II. To get together, esp. by screwing and stinting1. corrādo, 3 (to scrape together)2. comparco, si, 3 (by stinting)III. To rake up, i. e. revive something unpleasantIV. To scour, rummage ("the statesman rakes the town to find a plot," Swift)V. To fire across an enemy's position • rake (v.): I. Lit. rādo, si, sum, 3 (to scrape in any way, whence rastrum, rastellus): cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 31, 136 (ab rasu rastelli dicti). Comps. (1). corrādo, 3 (to r. together). Varr. l. c. (2). erādo, 3 (r. off the ground or root out of it with the rake): id. R. R. 1, 49. Phr.: to r. seeds over (cover them with soil by raking), (semina) rastellis obruere, Col. 2, 13, med.: to r. the ground clean, pectine verrere humum, Ov. R. Am. 192; less poetically, *terram rastello purgare. Phr.: to r. together the fire, *ignem cineribus condere; prunis cineres obducere. II. To get together, esp. by screwing and stinting: 1. corrādo, 3 (to scrape together): to r. together the money from some quarter or other, pecuniam alicunde c., Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 34: cf. id. Heaut. 1, 1, 89 (omnia corradere). 2. comparco, si, 3 (by stinting): Ter. Ph. 1, 1, 10. III. To rake up, i. e. revive something unpleasant: Phr.: to r. up an old scandal, *flagitii (infamiae) memoriam quae jam obsoleverat redintegrare; veterem infamiam et jam paene oblivio obrutam eruere atque proferre. IV. To scour, rummage ("the statesman rakes the town to find a plot," Swift): perh. percurro, 3; or scrūtor, perscrūtor, 1: Caes.: v. to scour, search. V. To fire across an enemy's position: *transversa ex obliquo conjicere tela.