hoe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   dig with a hoe

   They hoed the flower beds to prepare for planting.

2. 2
   noun

   Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

   To hoe the earth in a garden.

4. 4
   verb

   To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   To hoe corn.

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.

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