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- noun Plural form of
raking .
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Examples
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The rakings make the most fabulous compost, lots of moss in them.
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What fabulous rakings for the compost bin that produces too.
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The rakings are pure compost gold and go to the veggie patch to keep the strawberries, tomatoes and garlic happy.
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After all the informed speculation and historical sleuthing, the rakings of historiography, the mountains of testimony and reminiscence and wishful thinking pointing in one direction and another, the written record that this "shut-mouthed man" himself left us will have to be sufficient.
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Garlic was planted in late September and covered with a thick layer of the rakings by the Financier of the lawn thatch followed by some plastic netting to keep pesky squirrel excavators at bay.
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Her sides showed the rakings of many years 'contact with both amorous and angry males.
Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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Some curbs were piled shoulder high with boxes of ashes, old bedsprings, broken furniture, decayed mattresses, yard rakings, unsightly pots and pans hidden away for decades in mouldy cellars -- debris of so many kinds that it would be impossible to catalogue it!
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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_ -- Light scrapings and rakings alternate at ends of runs.
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Group _C_ shows a constantly decreasing capacity with successive rakings.
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He had it, without a legal sale, carried away to his own farm-yard, even to the very rakings and sweepings of the road and the yard near which it lay.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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