Scraping; gathering with a rake; cleaning and smoothing with a rake; Cannonading in the direction of the length; inclining. And raking chase-guns through our sterns they send.

a. That rakes; as a raking fire or shot.

The act of using a rake; the act or operation of collecting with a rake, or of cleaning and smoothing with a rake.

The space of ground raked at once; or the quantity of haycollected by once passing the rake.