means A long-handled garden tool with a row of teeth or tines for gathering leaves, smoothing soil, or clearing debris — or, as a verb, the act of using one.

from From Old English 'raca' or 'racu,' a tool for scraping things together, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'reka,' Dutch 'raak,' German 'Rechen' — all pointing back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning to gather or heap up. The unrelated 'rake' meaning a dissolute man is a separate word entirely, a shortening of the old 'rakehell.'