hoers

But those hoers with their hoes, Ischomachus, tell me for what reason you let them loose354 upon the corn.

Oeconomicus 2007

Isch. You agree there is some show of reason for letting in these gangs of hoers?

Oeconomicus 2007

There have actually been any number of local legends who were also thought to be hoers.

Aviary Vs. Sanctuary 2004

Yes, I'd like an order for two, please, some hoers d'oeuvres, some caviar and a good bottle of champagne.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment - September 22, 2000 2000

The intermission of labor was one hour and a half to hoers and pickers, and two hours to the ploughmen.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Whatever be our theory, the tenet that motion relieves pain, as a tenet, is as old as the "_back - straightening_" process used in some shires by the British turnip-hoers who on coming to the end of their rows lie down and let the rest of the women in the field walk over their toil-bent spine and cramped dorsal muscles, while as a fact it is as old as pain itself.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

Dey unhitch de mules fum de plows and come wid de chains rattlin ', and de cotton hoers put dey hoes on dey shoulders -- wid de blades shinin' in de sun, and all come hurrying to hear what Mr. DeLoach want wid'em.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Their leading citizens, _ipso facto_ their generals (amateur soldiers always cabbage-hoers at heart) afford him a good deal of amusement; as if you should send out the mayor of Jonesville,

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

The bankers who had taken interest upon money, the merchants who had traded with Moslems and heretics, in their last hoers frequently thought it best to perfect their title to salvation by turning over large estates to the Church.

Fra Paolo Sarpi 1904

There are turnip-hoers and turnip-hoers, just as there are painters and painters.

Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898