Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A. large rake with long iron teeth.
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Examples
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As was inevitable, from the first they loved -- he with the flaming passion of a hell-rake, she with the sweet, appealing purity of one whose whole life had been peculiarly virginal.
Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936
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Being assailed on all sides by a rabble rout, Fordelis is carried off by "hell-rake hounds."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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