Originally Posted by Philip Wales:
“Question why is "Rake" so called, the main characters name is Gleaver?”
From the ABC website:-
Why is the show called ‘Rake’?
The word ‘rake’, of course, has two meanings, which both apply to our show. Not only is there ‘rake’ in the Hogarthian sense of the bon vivant ladies man (which Cleaver Greene is), there’s also the garden implement, which trawls through our refuse, spending its entire working life in gutters.