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vb. (context intransitive of a hawk English) To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.
Usage examples of "rake out".
In the meantime he had to rake out the candles, which were making a disgusting smell.
Jacob gritted his teeth and slowly pulled the 'rake out of the lock.
You have to let the fire go out every few weeks to rake out the ashes, otherwise it gets clogged up.
Squinting into the lock, he rapidly draws the rake out, but it does not raise all of the pin tumblers to their shear point, so he tries again, and again, and finally on the sixth try the channel seems to be clear.
You can bet these fucking slum-lords will be around to collect the fire-insurance later on, after the ashes cool and they rake out what's left of the bodies!
Miss Sally used to keep the key of the kitchen door in her pocket, and she always come down at night to take away the candle and rake out the fire.
She went past one goblin, one paw kicking out swiftly enough to rake out the oblivious creature's throat, and then crashed upon another pair, bearing one down under her great weight and ripping the life from it in an instant, then skipping on to the next before it could rise and flee.
She went past one goblin, one paw kicking out swiftly enough to rake out the oblivious creature’.
Eventually I improvised a rake out of the LEM ladder and started to systematically wipe miner footprints from the regolith near the lander.
As we first entered its sepulchral silences we were greatly relieved that the three specter-like beings who sat huddled up over a distant ruin turned out not to be ghosts, but natives hopelessly and pathetically surveying this wreck that was once called home, trying to rake out of the embers some sort of relic of the past.