What is "raked together"

Usage examples of "raked together".

Ashe shifted on the bed of brush and leaves they had raked together for his comfort.

He threw down the fuel, then raked together the embers, blew them to life, fed the dancing flames.

But she soon dried her eyes, raked together the coals in the cooking stove and boiled one of the dress patterns in salt water for half an hour.

Comstock raked together the coals in the cooking stove, got out the lunch box, and sitting down she studied it grimly.

The young women wear their dower strung upon a strong wire that curves downward from the top of the head to the jaw--Turkish silver coins which they have raked together or inherited.

It was pathetic, and monstrous, too, when you considered how much the old skinflint had raked together by sweating his mill-workers and cheating his associates.

I rode a Tartar pony beside Lee's chair, so that he could point out such objects of interest as the distant Ming Tombs, one of the wonders of ancient China, and the huge siege-works from which the Imps had been expelled two weeks earlier, massive entrenchments bigger than anything I saw later in the Civil War or in France in '70, and filled now with thousands upon thousands of decaying corpses raked together from the battlefields which extended for miles around.