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A rake is a garden tool with a long handle and a row of teeth or tines at the end, used for spreading, smoothing, or gathering soil and other materials across the ground. It's useful for preparing soil for planting, cleaning up debris, and creating an even surface in yards and gardens.
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Garden rake made from turned pear tree wood, made 1560, Rustkammer Museum, Dresden Wooden hand-rake A heavy-duty bow rake for soil and rocks A light-duty leaf rake for leaves and grasses
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch hark, German Rechen or Harke, from the root meaning 'to scrape together', 'heap up') is a broom for outside use; a versatile horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, and in gardening, for loosening the soil, light weeding and to make furrows, mounds and levelling, removing dead grass from lawns, and generally for purposes performed in agriculture by the harrow. Depending on purpose, their materials and form will vary greatly.