v. [UN-2 3 + RAKE v.1 5.] trans. To uncover or expose by raking. Also absol.

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a. 1400[?].  MS. Cantab. Ff. i. 6, fol. 12 (Halliw.). Eke as charbokylle casteth ryght bemys, With rody lighte, as cole that is unrake.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xiii. 598. This againe vnraked the burning coales of enuie … against the said Lord Duke.

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1655.  Vaughan, Silex Scint., 60. When thou unrak’st thy fire, those sparks will bring New flames. Ibid. When thy Nap’s over, stir thy fire, unrake In that dead age.

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1861.  L. L. Noble, Icebergs, 91. At every dip of the oars it was like unraking the sparkling embers.

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