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a garden tool with a long handle and a row of metal points at the end, used for gathering fallen leaves and making soil smooth 耙子；耙状工具 
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(in the past 旧时 a man, especially a rich and fashionable one, who was thought to have low moral standards, for example because he drank or gambled a lot or had sex with a lot of women 浪荡的男人；花花公子 - [singular]
the amount by which something, especially the stage in a theatre, slopes （尤指剧院舞台）倾斜度
Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’. noun sense 2 mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense. noun sense 3 early 17th cent.: probably related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish raka.