hoeing

Weeds that we cut down in hoeing a field, we let lie on the ground if they were young weeds and bore no seeds nor blossoms, but if the weeds had seeded, we bore them off the garden about fifteen or twenty yards from the cultivated ground and left them to rot.

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden 1917

[Page 145] example, in hoeing, in getting down to plant things, and in rising; the trips which children make in carrying objects to some definite place, and in making a definite practical use of these objects, offer a field for very valuable gymnastic exercises.

The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer.

Louise Erdrich biography 2008

Once the cotton is growing, weeds are eradicated by natural methods such as hoeing rather than using chemicals.

Yearn Worthy Yarn: Samp’a, The Mirasol Project 2008

For other work, such as hoeing, weeding, earthing up (see page 21) change the tines of the cultivator.

Chapter 2 1976

When put to work such as hoeing, they would make the most outlandish motions with the hoe, often destroying valuable plants, not being able to distinguish them from the weeds.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Various

Page 344 bushel, and I am having mine threshed out so that I can sell some and be able to pay for the hoeing which is absolutely necessary now.

A Woman Rice Planter 1914

That's the kind of hoeing I want you to do -- please dig me up those teeth for Aunt

Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

The women who had young babies were assigned to what was considered "light work," such as hoeing potatoes, cutting weeds from the fence corners, and any other work of like character.

Thirty years a slave : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter, 1897

“light work,” such as hoeing potatoes, cutting weeds from the fence corners, and any other work of like character.

Thirty Years a Slave Hughes, Louis, 1832- 1897