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vb. (context idiomatic English) To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty
Usage examples of "rake together".
On frightfully important occasions of state, I may be prevailed upon to rake together a skeleton Company and dress them up in uniforms so that they may parade before a visiting Embassy, or some such.
Yet as Daniel, in the tavern, tries to rake together his early memories of Trinity and of Cambridge, he’.
So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out what sort of reporter- material I might be able to rake together out of the sixth century when I should come to need it.
The rest of them I began to rake together with my free hand, crumpling some in my hurry to get them under my arm and under cover.
Their sacks were slim, and with his own the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars.
It was to tell me that I was being sent to Lvov to fetch forty precious tanks, possibly the last the army could rake together.