rake out

English

Verb

rake out (third-person singular simple present rakes out, present participle raking out, simple past and past participle raked out)

1. To clean by removing material with a rake.

   Please rake out the stables tomorrow.

2. (intransitive, falconry) To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.
   • 1674, “Of Hawks and Hawking”, in The Gentleman's Recreation:

     When you intend a Flight for a Haggard, for the firſt, ſecond and third time make choice of ſuch a place where there are no Cows, Rooks, or the like, to take away all occasion of her raking out ſuch check.