n. An implement for digging, scraping, or loosening earth, cutting weeds, etc., made in various forms.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.n. The common dogfish, Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris; also, a name of several other kinds of sharks. See cut under dogfish.n. A variant of how.n. An obsolete form of ho.To play or dance a hoe-down.n. See hoey.