moonlight ( gh silent)

& 8. [Eng. moon, and light.] IMG:content-1383.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Naut .: A sail sometimes carried above the sky. -er.] scraper; a moon-sail. 2. A silly fellow. Foolish people are sometimes called moon-rakers, from a legend that a farmer's wife once tried to rake the moon from a river, under the delusion that it was a cream cheese. ( Brewer .) Another version is, that some countrymen raking for kegs of smuggled spirits which had been sunk in a pond, on being questioned by a revenue-officer, told him they were trying to rake that great cheese (the reflection of the moon) out of the water.