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rake in something

to receive something valuable in large amounts. University graduate students continued to rake in awards and honors this year.

Usage notes: often used about money: The fund-raiser raked in more than $23 million for the party.We were raking it in after the Times ran a review saying we were “the best.”

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When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla. Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context It does not seemed to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

References in classic literature

When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla.

Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

It does not seemed to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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