Angularity and Rake

noun

• A shape having one or more sharp angles.
  • synonyms: angular shape
• The property possessed by a shape that has angles. .

noun

• A dissolute man in fashionable society.
  • synonyms: rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue
• Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.
  • usage: "the roof had a steep pitch"
  • synonyms: pitch, slant
• A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil.

verb

• Move through with or as if with a rake.
  • usage: "She raked her fingers through her hair"
• Level or smooth with a rake.
  • usage: "rake gravel"
• Sweep the length of.
  • usage: "The gunfire raked the coast"
• Examine hastily.
  • usage: "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  • synonyms: scan, skim, glance over, run down
• Gather with a rake.
  • usage: "rake leaves"
• Scrape gently.
  • usage: "graze the skin"
  • synonyms: graze, crease

• (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
• (v.i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
• (v.t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
• (v.t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
• (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
• (v.i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
• (v.t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
• (v.t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
• (v.i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
• (v.t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
• (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
• (v.i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
• (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
• (v.i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
• (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
• (v.t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
• (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

rake is the outer edge of the roof from the eave to the ridge.