garden rake
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- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən reɪk/
:
rastrillo de jardín
- The weather was colder now, so I wore a sweater and windbreaker, sometimes gloves, to turn the giant pages that I lobbed over with the varnished handle end of a True Value garden rake.
Examples
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And you could hear the great strong women asking whether they could borrow a garden rake.
Fiction book (2000) -
Finally, take the garden rake and run it along both sides of the car.
Blog text (14) -
At first, I think it might be the young man spreading sawdust around the floor in great rows, then smoothing the rows with a garden rake.
Fiction book (2001) -
To clear the leaves from the lawn, I grabbed my garden rake and got to work.
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After tilling the soil, I used a garden rake to level it out for planting.
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She carefully smoothed the dirt with the garden rake to prepare for the new flower beds.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long-handled tool with a row of teeth used to gather leaves and loosen soil
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1.0
A tool used to work in a garden, like a spade or rake
A garden tool with many close teeth for gathering leaves and small debris
A small hand tool with short teeth for loosening soil and gathering leaves
A tool for keeping a lawn tidy, like a mower or rake
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'garden rake' is directly compositional: 'garden' (an outdoor plot) modifying 'rake' (a hand tool) clearly denotes a rake used for garden tasks. This noun+noun modification pattern is common cross-linguistically and easily predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Garden rake is a simple name for a tool: a rake used in a garden, with a long handle and teeth that pull leaves and smooth the soil. So, because it actually 'rakes' the garden, the name tells its use and means 'a hand tool for gathering leaves or smoothing soil'.