The croupier with his rake pushed the money on to seventeen.
Another croupier with his rake pulled it off again .
Eleven field pieces were mounted in this in such a way as torake the Stockade diagonally.
I agree with you," said Newton: look at therake of her stern; she's English all over.
At this juncture take your rake and cover the seeds, leaving the whole bed level and smooth.
If we rake together a pile of leaves, cover it higgledy-piggledy with dead twigs and branches picked up at random, and set a match to it, the odds are that it will result in nothing but a quick blaze that soon dies down to a smudge.
Mix these thoroughly together before filling the beds, sprinkle wood ashes over the beds and rake them in before planting.
For a time you may use the hoe or rake between the rows of beans, but even here near the paths themselves the weeder or hands should be preferred.
When the spading has been done, then use your rake and spare it not.
Rake until the earth in the beds is finely pulverized and until the whole bed is as level as you can make it.
She liked to rake hay, she said; it came natural to her, and she had no doubt she inherited the taste from her mother, who had probably worked in the fields in Germany.
All day long he plunged ahead, but she kept at his heels, and when the last swath was cut and the last sheaf bound she threw the rake over her shoulder and remarked: "It has been a het day, Mr Jamieson.
Before the day of the self-rake machine the grain was harvested with the cradle, and cradling was work for a giant.
There was also an artistic carelessness about the sheaves made with a self-rake machine, but the binder of to-day makes them all of the same size--a fact which makes the handling of sheaves much more convenient.
One morning the mower started, in the afternoon the rake was busy, and by the end of the next day the hay was all in the mows and lofts.
With the handle of the rakeresting on her shoulder, she was mopping her face with a corner of her apron.
In the days of the self-rake machines that did not measure the sheaves automatically, but had to be "tripped" by the driver, they varied from a few wisps to huge bundles that would break the fork handles.
I asked, flinging down my rakeand tying my bonnet.
He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.
To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again; as, to rakeup old scandals.
Defn: A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
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.
Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
Defn: To inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
Oyster dredge, a rake or small dragnet of bringing up oyster from the bottom of the sea.
Defn: To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.
Go, rake out the ashes; you might find a cracked diamond or two, but not the pearls; they fly in fire.
Also we can rakeup witnesses and a cup of wine to drink your health; and after that let the Abbot of Blossholme do his worst.
Then the Snake Got entangled with the rake In Johnny Crow's Garden.
I am larger and stronger than either the Rake or the Shovel, though of course the Rakehas a longer handle.
The Elephant got up on a strong, empty onion crate, and stood there with the Shovel, the Rake and the Pick standing in a row in front of him.
When the earth is packed hard and dry, so that neither the Shovel nor the Rake can be used, Jake always comes and gets me.
Archie's toy saw the Pick, the Rake and the Shovel step out from a dark corner and stand in a row before him.
It is also true," he went on, "that theRake is very useful.
But it is a very thin handle, and if Jake struck as hard a blow with the Rake as he strikes with me, the Rake's handle would break.
The Rake stepped back in line with the others, and they all waited for the Elephant to speak.
And with my sharp points the hardest ground can be made soft, so the Rakeand the Shovel can work.
Now, why can't I have a stroke of luck an' rake in a stack?
At the time the Duchess of Portsmouth "retained him in London with a tenderness so undisguised as to excite the raillery of the whole Court," he was a handsome and attractive rake of twenty-eight.
Perhaps the fact of such a rake as de Richelieu remaining faithful for a period of such duration may be more mercenary than it appears.
A stone thrown down from here falls over both blocks and rolls down the snow out of the mouth of Lord's Rake on to the screes far away below.
After a laborious scramble up this scree the rake is entered, and only a few yards further the lower pitch of Deep Gill is seen on the left hand.
After a couple of hundred steps had been cut in the snow in Lord's Rakeand at the bottom of Deep Gill, which joins the former at right angles, we reached the first block--a large rock perhaps 15 ft.
And puts a rake in his hand and laughs in his laughing face.
The less said about poodles the better; why rakeup the past?
The construction of this implement is such that a large space is afforded beneath the rake head for the collection of hay.
By an ingenious lever arrangement the driver is enabled to hold the rake to its work by the pressure of his foot, and also readily to discharge the hay gathered.
The pivots of said rake head back are also brought back, so that the teeth may be readily raised to discharge the collected hay.
A rakefor collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.
Billy, with wisdom born of much experience in the ways of a round-up crew when the Fourth of July draws near, started his riders at day-dawn to rake all Fighting Wolf on its southern side.
In the meantime the enemy had placed a part of a battery in position that began to rake our line with canister.
Barlow discovered that by moving his men to the left and a little forward he could rake the position of the Confederates.
This hungry whorecop hath such a policate wit, That he teacheth them to rake and scrape up each whit.
This same is her work--the devil in hell rake her!
He could be seen in them entering his cold bath, playing at ball, or using his little rake and spade.
Oh, by a title far more flattering; that rake is called the King of Hearts.
Once astride a trench, the guns of the tank could rake right and left, mowing down the defenders whose volleys pattered harmlessly on the steel plates of the war engine.
But the British were in a situation where they could rake the German lines with their artillery and machine-gun fire, and made the most of their advantage.
