Rake is the pitch of the stairs – i.e. the angle between the pitch line and the horizontal where the Pitch Line is the notional line connecting the nosings of all threads in a flight of stairs.
This term also applies to the slope of the roof.
Wikipedia Entry for Stairway
Wikipedia Entry for Roof Pitch
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