Raking

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake

(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.

校对:米里亚姆

• Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They will be raking up everything against him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Which, you see, Pip, said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, were a drawback on my learning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This plan was very clumsy, but improvements were made so rapidly that by 1860 the market was filled with various patterns of self-raking reapers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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