raker
- noun
- /ˈreɪkər/
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- The skilled raker carefully gathered the fallen leaves into neat piles.
- hand rakers
Examples
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Before the late 1930s, hand rakers temporarily stored their daily catches of hard clams in floating wooden cars in Keyport and Port Monmouth-Belford.
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The open-water fish have a larger number of gill rakers, which the fish use to strain tiny prey from the water.
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Hand rakers worked mainly from spring through fall.
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Some sea skiffs carried as many as three rakers.
Academic text (1990) -
Doc Raker
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Thereafter, until the early 1970s, authorities opened small areas temporarily, and a small number of hand rakers and sail dredgers gathered hard clams.
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Tongers and short-handle rakers could gather 3-9 bushels a day: treaders, two to three bushels a day.
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In 1930 or 1931, seed hard clams had set abundantly in many large areas, and because little work was available ashore then, the number of hand rakers in New Jersey increased sharply to gather them.
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At the beach, the raker collected seashells from the sand.
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The committee hired a raker to clean up the garden after the heavy storm.
Synonyms
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1.4
A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit
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3.2
A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living
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8.4
A person who collects leftover grain from fields after harvest
A person who collects litter from places like beaches or parks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Raker comes from the common verb rake, which means 'to gather or move material with a toothed tool'. So a raker is simply a person or machine that 'rakes' leaves or hay, and the word tells you the job it does.