Meanings
verbrake out (third-person singular simple present rakes out, present participle raking out, simple past and past participle raked out)
present singular third person rakes out · participle present raking out · participle past raked out · past raked out
- To clean by removing material with a rake.
Please rake out the stables tomorrow.
- intransitivefalconryTo fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.
When you intend a Flight for a Haggard, for the firſt, ſecond and third time make choice of ſuch a place where there are no Cows, Rooks, or the like, to take away all occasion of her raking out ſuch check.
1674, “Of Hawks and Hawking”, in The Gentleman's Recreation
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