rake-hell

rake-hell

See also: rakehell

English

Adjective

rake-hell (comparative more rake-hell, superlative most rake-hell)

1. Alternative form of rakehell

Noun

rake-hell (plural rake-hells)

1. Alternative form of rakehell
   • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (1902), page 165:

     The King when he heard of Perkin's siege of Exeter, made sport with it, and said to them that were about him, that the King of rake-hells was landed in the west...

Anagrams

• hell-rake