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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Hoe

/hō/ · IPA /hoʊ/
01 n. 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 stee…
  1. 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. 2.
    The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.(Zool.) See: Dogfish
Phrases & compounds
Dutch hoe — one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade.
Horse hoe — a kind of cultivator.
02 v. t. 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 arra…
imp. & p. p. Hoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoeing
  1. 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.
Phrases & compounds
To hoe one's row — to do one's share of a job.
03 v. i. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
  1. 1.
    To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.