单词 | rake off |
释义 | > as lemmasto rake out (also away, off) a. intransitive. Falconry. To fly along after a quarry. to rake out (also away, off): to drift away from the falconer; to fly wide of or away from a quarry. Also occasionally used of the quarry itself. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly away from quarry to rake out (also away, off)1575 to turn tail1575 to turn taila1586 check1615 to fly at check1667 the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly at quarry enoisel?1533 rake1797 bolt1855 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 121 Hoode hir vp without any rewarde: and hereby she will the lesse delyght to rake out after a checke. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 151 Your hawke will learne to giue ouer a fowle that rakes out. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. viii. 93 If your Hawke..rake and gase after euery checke, neither respecting whooping nor gibbeting, in this case you must [etc.]. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 106 Whistle her off your Fist, standing still to see..whether she will rake out or not. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 344/2 It frequently happens, that they escape from the hawk, and she, not recovering them, rakes after them. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 28 When the bird mounts, the hawk rakes along after it. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 31 She ‘checked’ first at one bird, then at the other,..and lastly,..she ‘raked off’. 1855 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles 46 A Hawk is particularly liable to ‘rake away’, and amuse itself with an occasional stoop at any bird that may pass. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 125 in Idylls of King She is too noble..to check at pies, Nor will she rake. 1900 E. B. Mitchell Art & Pract. of Hawking ii. 24 The lanner..is apt to rake away and check at pigeons. 1983 Times 12 Aug. 8/2 A falcon that is flown without bathing is likely to rake away in search of water. 2005 H. Peeters & P. Peeters Raptors of Calif. 53 Aerial pursuit may be short and direct, as preferred by short-winged hawks, or it may rake across the sky as a falcon stoops at its prey. to rake off a. transitive. To accumulate (money); to acquire (wealth). Frequently in collocation with scrape (cf. Phrases 2). to rake it in (colloquial): to amass a vast sum of money. to rake off: to collect or divert (a share of profits, winnings, etc.), esp. illegally. to rake in the shekels: see shekel n. 2. ΚΠ 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H3v By which kind of theft,..they rake in great somes of mony. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. ii. 157 Her exceeding greedines in raking of money. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 80 Now gather gold and spare not by heapes, rake and scrape together masses of silver. a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 88 How greedily, how insatiably hath he neuer ceased the whilest to rake & gleane mony together? 1707 G. Miège Present State of Great Brit. I. x. 219 I have observed many of 'em..who will be raking and scraping all the year, what they will lay out upon a Frolick in one Day. a1758 T. Newman Serm. on Happiness (1760) II. xvii. 445 If to live was only to scramble for, or rake together wealth. 1765 tr. A. Goudar Chinese Spy III. lxxix. 203 Some shall spend their whole life in raking and scraping up wealth to found a college. 1831 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 25 Mar. 1/3 He was devouring all the money they could rake and scrape to pay for the lands he had sold them. 1891 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. 2/3 (headline) On a Margin of $2,000 He Raked Off a Profit of $900. 1893 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 30 Sept. Now he is the proprietor of a fine place and is making money as fast as he can rake it in. 1940 R. Wright Native Son i. 11 I bet that sonofabitch rakes off a million bucks in graft a year. 1969 Observer 21 Dec. 28/3 He's raking it in already. Writes ‘think pieces’ for Honey magazine. 1985 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs iii. 73 Myrna's in real estate... She's working her..head off. Raking it in too. 1992 D. F. Gates Chief vi. 84 By ‘recruiting’ hundreds of handbooks across the country, the Mafia raked off a fortune. 2005 Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) (Nexis) 4 Feb. 1 a If you don't rake and scrape every penny for your district, then it's going to go somewhere else. to rake off ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (transitive)] > strike quarry in air rake1763 1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg II. 78 The hawks generally raked in the pheasants while flying. 1773 J. Campbell Treat. Mod. Faulconry 211 When she sees the fowl fluttering, she is apt to come down rapidly, in order to rake it off. 1773 J. Campbell Treat. Mod. Faulconry 232 When the hawk is well acquainted with the sport, she will be..ready to rake the fowl as it rises. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. iii. 42 Until The unseamed falcon learned to wing its way..And, binding, rake its quarry to the ground. < as lemmas |
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