Hoe
Definition of Hoe
| n. | 1. | A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle. | | 2. | (Zool.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. | | v. t. | 1. | To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. | | v. i. | 1. | To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. |
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backset, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, fallow, fertilize, force, harrow, list, mulch, plow, prune, rake, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, work
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