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Definition of Rakers
1. raker [n] - See also: raker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakers
Literary usage of Rakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by Corporation of London, Corporation of London (England), John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"Of rakers. Item, that they have rakers sufficient for cleansing the Wards of
divers refuse; and order the constables, ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Gill-rakers comparatively few and short, 8 to 20 below the angle. c. Anal fin
111, 9 to ii, high and falcate boulengeri, 391 cc. Anal fin III, n or 12, ..."
3. Fresh Water Fishes and Their Ecology by Stephen Alfred Forbes (1914)
"with mud; but it develops effective gill-rakers also, and we sometimes find the
stomach of the adult stuffed with a fairly clean plankton. ..."
4. The New Nation by Frederic Logan Paxson (1915)
"CHAPTER XIX THE "MUCK-rakers" BEFORE Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second
term, the national " revival," in which he and Bryan and other preachers of ..."
5. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1807)
"... constables, beadles, watchmen, scavengers, rakers, &c. Westminster sent no
members to parliament till the first year of the reign of Edward VI. ..."
6. Farm Woodwork by Louis Michael Roehl (1919)
"All rakers must be not less than 1-100 nor more than 1-32 of an inch shorter than
the cutting teeth and must be filed to sharp chisel- shaped edges. 3. ..."
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