Middle English Dictionary Entry
rāke n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | rāke n.(1) Also rak. |
| Etymology | OE raca |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A rake, hoe, or similar implement; lene as a ~, thin as a rake; (b) ~ hok, the tooth of a plasterer's rake; ~ stele, rakes stele, a rake-handle; fir ~, fire rake [see also fir n. 2b.(a)].
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)385 : Mes il i ad rastel [glossed:] rake e rastuer, Ki servent de diverse mester.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)523 : Rastel, martel, et rastuere; Rake, hamur, and ribbe.
- (1374) Doc.Coldingham in Sur.Soc.12p.lxxvi : Tribuli et forkys et rakyse pro feno et j grabyse et alia instrumenta neccessaria ad husbandriam.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.55 : Fabius slowȝ Remus his broþer wiþ an herdes rake [L rastro pastorali].
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.287 : As leene was his hors as is a rake.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)227a/b : Hey..is y-houe, y-torned, and y-went wiþ pikes, ȝeueles, and rakes [L rastris], for it schulde nouȝt by superfluite of moisture apeyre by þe grounde.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)9b/b : Bidens: a toþed rake or a þoȝed shep or a mattoke.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)422 : Rake, or ryve: Rastrum, rastallum.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)6488 : Yet..Ys the hynger..More gredy..Of wommen for to Acroche and take, Ther leveth noght byhynde her rake.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)6 : Rakes are called þer long hokis of yrun with too tynes with whech þei turne her lond; For euene as we with spadis put þe lond from us in deluyng, so þei with her rakes draw it on to hem.
- c1450 St.Eras.(Add 36983)p.202 : These ben þe passions þat he suffred..vii was rakes of yren rendyng his flesshe.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)153 : He berith a balstaff..& els a rakis ende.
- a1475(a1450) Tourn.Tott.(Hrl 5396)105 : I bere a reddyl and a rake, Poudred with a brenand drake.
- a1475 Lord how (Brog 2.1)p.8 : I waxe as leyne as anny rake.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)102a : Rake: pecten, Rastrum, Rastellum.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)726/9 : Rastrum: a rak.
b
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.949 : That tale is nat worth a rake stele [vr. rakes stele].
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.169/907 : Item, for rakhokes j d.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.2009 : Youre resons, lady, avayle not a rake-stele.
- (a1500) Collect.Anglo-Premonst.in RHS ser.3.6264 : A per of tanges, a fire rake, a fire forke.