rake out
verb1
To clean by removing material with a rake.
- Please rake out the stables tomorrow.
2
Falconry, Hobbies, Hunting, Lifestyle To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.
- When you intend a Flight for a Haggard, for the firſt, ſecond and third time make choice of ſuch a place where there are no Cows, Rooks, or the like, to take away all occasion of her raking out ſuch check.1674, “Of Hawks and Hawking”, in The Gentleman's Recreation: