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a comb for the earth, plus the only tool that fights back if you step on it
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.'
- slapstick physics
- Sideshow Bob got hit by nine in a row
- old word
- comes from Old English raca, predates the year 1000
- double meaning
- also means a charming, dissolute scoundrel
- zen tool
- raked gravel gardens mimic rippling water
- angle matters
- tines bent for leaves, straight for soil
the rake creepypasta — internet horror story from 2005 about a humanoid creature that scratches victims
rake angle in machining — tool geometry measurement used in cnc and manual cutting operations worldwide