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See also: rakehell
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rake-hell (comparative more rake-hell, superlative most rake-hell)
- Alternative form of rakehell
Noun
[edit]rake-hell (plural rake-hells)
- Alternative form of rakehell
- 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 165:
- The King when he heard of Perkin's siege of Exeter, made sport with it, and said to them that were about him, that the King of rake-hells was landed in the west...