Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.
- intransitive verb To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.
- intransitive verb To work with a hoe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun The common dogfish, Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris; also, a name of several other kinds of sharks. See cut under
dogfish . - noun An implement for digging, scraping, or loosening earth, cutting weeds, etc., made in various forms.
- noun A variant of
how . - To play or dance a hoe-down.
- noun An obsolete form of
ho . - noun See
hoey .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Zoöl.) The horned or piked dogfish. See
Dogfish . - noun one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade.
- noun a kind of cultivator.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb [Colloq.] to do one's share of a job.
- intransitive verb To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flatblade fixedperpendicular to it at the end, used fordigging rows . - verb To use the agricultural tool defined above.
- noun A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a
promontory . - noun US, slang Alternative spelling of
ho . Aprostitute . - verb US, slang Alternative spelling of
ho . To act as a prostitute.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dig with a hoe
- noun a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But they started to cook with it, beginning with native fry cake, which they called hoe bread or hoecake.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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It's a tough row to hoe, in other words, to make the jump from the lower house of Congress to the White House.
Chris Weigant: Bachmann Rising, Palin Fading? Chris Weigant 2011
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Soulja Boy claimed in this article that his lyrics are not obscene (really, even the word hoe?)
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But you can't just come on a morning television show and say the word hoe without some kind of reference point.
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-- The word "howes" inserted in connection with various kinds of dogs, is our modern word hoe; Smith has it hows on page 86, and howes on page 162.
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
Prolagus commented on the word hoe
WordNet #2?!
May 22, 2009
reesetee commented on the word hoe
Oh, WeirdNet. How you taunt us with your generalizations.
May 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word hoe
Wait, I can't read that comment. Let me just adjust the monitor settings on my hoe.
May 22, 2009
skipvia commented on the word hoe
Maybe WeirdNet is referring to pimping?...
May 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word hoe
Or perhaps this?
May 22, 2009
rolig commented on the word hoe
Very funny. But my hoe seems rather slow today, or no wait, that's my brain.
May 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word hoe
Hav ng trou le typ ng res onse; stu id hoe s not work ng pro erly!
May 23, 2009