noun Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials. An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
noun An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
noun Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]
verb To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
to hoe the earth in a garden
verb To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
to hoe corn
noun Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
verb Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).