Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RAK-ING
RAK-ING, ppr.
- 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.
- adj. That rakes; as, a raking fire or shot.
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