Hoe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.
  • v. To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.
  • verb-intransitive. To work with a hoe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
  • v. To use the agricultural tool defined above.
  • n. Alternative spelling of ho. A prostitute.
  • v. Alternative spelling of ho. To act as a prostitute.
  • n. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
  • n. The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. dig with a hoe
  • n. a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
  • Verb Form
    hoed    hoeing    hoes   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    till   
    Cross Reference
    a hard    bayonet-hoe    d-hoe    to hoe one's own row    horse-hoe    mattock    rake    pick   
    Variant
    dogfish   
    Form
    hoed    hoeing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cultivated    weed    scuffle    sarcle    scuffler    hacker    prostitute   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shovel    scythe    rake    crowbar    axe    plow    machete    pickaxe    mattock    hatchet