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If the stoker would only drop a shovelful of coals dexterously into each hole the humming would stop immediately, or level the fire with the rake or long poker, or open the fire door if the rake is too heavy, and the noise will cease.— The Stoker's Catechism
In the haying she operated the horse-rake, and helped man the hay-fork in filling the barns.— Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
One couldn't find a rake, and another couldn't find a rake; so, long before they came back, the poor Jew was drowned.— Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
Ah! there you are; but--you are as thin as a rake, and still rather shaky, apparently.— Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
The masts in both ships have the same rake, the yards the same spread, and the running-gear is rove and led in exactly the same manner.— The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron

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