"As Thin as a Rake": But What Is a Rake?
- Author / Editor
- Considine, John.
"As Thin as a Rake": But What Is a Rake?
- Published
- Notes and Queries 256 (2011): 490-91.
- Description
- Shows that "rake" in the proverbial simile "thin as a rake/rail" (first attested in English in the GP description of the Clerk's horse, I.288) means a fodder crib.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Clerk and His Tale