"It had better, because that fort's built so the guns can rake all of us as we lie at the quay."

Against a captain who was walking the quarterdeck wearing a long black coat and denying that every gun in his starboard broadside had just raked theCalypso?

A submachine gun raked the night.

The guns raked up and down, dumping a volume of fire that eliminated in-pouring slime before it could reseal the breech.

Quiggs's submachine gun raked the entering party from one side to the other, and then back again, and then over again.

The Spanish guns could rake the length of the bridge, rattle its stones with canister, and so the French were trapped in the great river bend.

Some five hundred of them charged on horseback, but were met by a very steady fire from the Artillery Rifles, while the guns raked them with shrapnel.

A companion's submachine gun had raked him.

His starboard guns now raked Pilton's ship.

His gun raked the side of my face but it didn't go off.