Hoe

Word HOE
Character 3
Hyphenation hoe
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Hoe"

What do we mean by hoe?

A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening. noun

To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe. intransitive verb

To work with a hoe. intransitive verb

To cut, dig, scrape, or clean with a hoe.

To clear from weeds or cultivate with a hoe: as, to hoe turnips or cabbages.

To use a hoe.

The common dogfish, Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris; also, a name of several other kinds of sharks. See cut under dogfish. noun

An implement for digging, scraping, or loosening earth, cutting weeds, etc., made in various forms. noun

A variant of how. noun

To play or dance a hoe-down.

An obsolete form of ho. noun

See hoey. noun

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. noun

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. noun

One having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. noun

A kind of cultivator. noun

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; ; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. transitive verb

To do one's share of a job. transitive verb

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. intransitive verb

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows. noun

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

The horned or piked dogfish.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hoe

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The word "hoe" in example sentences

But they started to cook with it, beginning with native fry cake, which they called hoe bread or hoecake. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)

It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)

Soulja Boy claimed in this article that his lyrics are not obscene (really, even the word hoe?) ❋ Unknown (2008)

But you can't just come on a morning television show and say the word hoe without some kind of reference point. ❋ Unknown (2008)

-- The word "howes" inserted in connection with various kinds of dogs, is our modern word hoe; Smith has it hows on page 86, and howes on page 162. ❋ Various (N/A)

The rake formed a T on the end and the hoe was a perfect hook. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

How do you ban a word that is allowed -- a hoe is a garden tool. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sanders had charged that -- that she was subjected to verbal abuse, that she was called hoe, that Thomas used the "b" word towards her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One suggestion is that the hoe was a chance find recovered in the Middle Ages during stone robbing of a Roman ruin. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But Rhavas thought most of the peasants he'd seen were more likely to break a hoe handle over a greedy cleric's head than to cough up a copper, let alone give over gold. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2005)

Their only instrument for culture is a double-handled hoe, which is worked with a sort of dragging motion. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The plough, which in Eastern Africa has passed the limits of Egypt, is still the crooked tree of all primitive people, drawn by oxen; and the hoe is a wooden blade inserted into a knobbed handle. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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