Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK Und.) to divide (loot).

1848		Ladies’ Repository (N.Y.) Oct. VIII:37 317/1: Rauge or Rake, to divide stolen property.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 12/1: Legs had [...] been doing a crib the night previous, but on ‘raking the stuff, stuck’ to some eighty pounds.

2. (Scot.) to search.

1936		W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 204: But the way [out] could not be discovered [...] The town had already been raked from end to end.
1973		(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 128: ‘Big Ken’ McDonald was taxed with ‘raking’ boys on their arrest and pocketing whatever he found.

3. see rake (it) in v.