Definition for RAK-ING

RAK-ING, ppr.

  1. Scraping; gathering with a rake; cleaning and smoothing with a rake; cannonading in the direction of the length; inclining. And raking chase-guns through our sterns they send. – Dryden.
  2. adj. That rakes; as, a raking fire or shot.

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