While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Leaf-gathering tool crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on January 7 2025 Newsday Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Leaf-gathering tool has a total of 4 letters.
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Definition
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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.
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A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting
hay or grain; a horserake.
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A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically,
or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
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To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;
as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
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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.
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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.
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To search through; to scour; to ransack.
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To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and
lightly, as a rake does.
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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.
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To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to
scrape; to search minutely.
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To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
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The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;
as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
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the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any
part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
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To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast
rakes aft.
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A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
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To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
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To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
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RAKE
Leaf-gathering tool
Newsday
Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:
Newsday Crossword, January 7 2025
LA Times Crossword, June 3 2024
The answer we have in our database for "Leaf-gathering tool" is: RAKE
There are a total of 4 letters in RAKE
The crossword clue "Leaf-gathering tool" was last spotted on January 7 2025
"Leaf-gathering tool" was last seen on Newsday Crossword
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