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In point of fact; the rake is the poker room's profit for the game situation it gives.

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  1. noun A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
  2. noun A device that resembles such an implement.
  3. transitive verb To gather or move with or as if with a rake: rake leaves; rake in the gambling chips.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English raca; see reg- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Short for rakehell.
  3. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English rake, from Anglo-Saxon raca, racu, ræce = Middle Dutch rake, raecke, Dutch rake, diminutive rakel = Middle Low German rake, Low German rake, a rake, = Swedish raka, an oven-rake, = Danish rage, a poker; in another form, Middle Dutch reke, Dutch reek = Low German reek = Old High German recho, rehho, Middle High German reche, German rechen, a rake, = Icelandic reka, a shovel; from the verb represented by Middle Dutch reken, Old High German rechan, rehhan, Middle High German rechen, scrape together, = Gothic (Moesogothic) rikan (preterit rak), collect, heap up (cf. rake, v., which depends on the noun).
  2. from Middle English raken, scrape, from Anglo-Saxon *racian = Middle Dutch raken = Middle Low German raken = Icelandic Swedish raka = Danish rage, rake; from the noun: see rake, n. Cf. Middle Dutch reken, Old High German rechan, rehhan, Middle High German rechen, scrape together, German rechen, rake, Gothic (Moesogothic) rikan (preterit rak), collect, heap up: see rake, n.
  3. from Middle English rake (also raike), from Anglo-Saxon racu, a path (eá-racu, a river-path), from the root of rack: see rack. Cf. rake, v.
  4. Early modern English (Scots) also raik; from Middle English raken, from Anglo-Saxon racian, run, take a course, = Swedish raka, run hastily; mixed with Middle English raiken, rayken, reyken, from Icelandic reika, wander: see rake, n.
  5. from Old Swedish raka, project, reach (raka fram, reach over, project), = Danish rage, project, protrude, jut out; allied to Anglo-Saxon reccan, stretch: see rack, retch.
  6. from rake, v.
  7. Abbr. of rakehell, ult. of rakel.
  8. from rake, n.
 

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