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cole-rake, colrake
Also 5 coolerake, colrak(e; also β. 6– coulrake, 8 cowl-rake, courake.
[perh. orig. f. col, cole, coal (in its sense of cinder) + rake. But there is difficulty phonetically with the forms coul-, cowl-rake and mod. dial. cou'rake, unless these have been assimilated to the dial. vb. coul, to rake towards one.]
1. An instrument used for raking the cinders or ashes out of an oven or furnace.
αc1440Promp. Parv. 88 Coole rake [v.r. colrake], restellum, batillum. c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 613 Stalerum, a colrake. c1475Pict. Voc. ibid. 809 Hoc jocabulum, a colrake. 1483Cath. Angl. 72 A Colrake, trulla. 1538Elyot Bibliotheca, Rutabulum, a coole rake to make cleane an oven. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed VI. 27 The colerake sweeping of a pufloafe baker. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Rouable, or Rable, a cole rake.
β1572Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 349 In the kitching One Rakingcroke, one Iron por, one pele, one iro' coulrake ijs. viijd. 1853Whitby Gloss., Coulrake, the iron rake for the ashes at kitchen firesides. 1883Almondb. & Huddersf. Gloss., Coulrake, variously pronounced cou'rake, colerake, and co'rake. Used chiefly for drawing coals upon the fire.
2. A similar instrument for other purposes.
1575Turberv. Venerie 194 The instruments to digge withal..spades, howes or mattocks and pickaxes a colerake and a payre of clampes. 1633T. James Voy. 79, I put some to make Col-rakes [to] rake a hole in the sands to let downe our Rudder. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Col-rake, a shovel used to stir lead ore when it is being washed.
3. (In β forms), A mud-scraper, a muck-rake.
1788W. Marshall E. Yorksh. Gloss., Cowl-rake, a mud scraper. 1811Willan West-riding Yorksh. Gloss., Coul vb., to put together dung, mud, dirt, etc. Coul-rake, the instrument by which this is performed. |