Definition of "raking" []

• Present participle of rake. (verb)
• The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake. (noun)
• A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake. (noun)

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• "I am there, once again raking pine needles, just moving them from one place to another, over and over again, like Sisyphus rolling his bloody rock."
• "Which means, of course, that leaf-raking is good for me, too, right?"
• "What a mean and ungentlemanly act, to say the very least, is that of Mr. Seward in raking up a more or less apocryphal list of"