Hoe
[həʊ] or [ho]
Definition
(noun.) a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
(verb.) dig with a hoe; 'He is hoeing the flower beds'.
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Definition
(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. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
(v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
Editor: Lucius
Definition
n. an instrument for hewing or digging up weeds and loosening the earth.—v.t. to cut or clean with a hoe: to weed.—v.i. to use a hoe:—pr.p. hoe′ing; pa.p. hoed.—ns. Hoe′-cake (U.S.) a thin cake of Indian meal; Hō′er.—A hard or long row to hoe a hard or wearisome task to perform.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a hoe, denotes that you will have no time for idle pleasures, as there will be others depending upon your work for subsistence. To dream of using a hoe, you will enjoy freedom from poverty by directing your energy into safe channels. For a woman to dream of hoeing, she will be independent of others, as she will be self-supporting. For lovers, this dream is a sign of faithfulness. To dream of a foe striking at you with a hoe, your interests will be threatened by enemies, but with caution you will keep aloof from real danger.
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Examples
- He had rather a hard row to hoe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The plough and the hoe are the chief implements with which man has subdued the earth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Children from the age of eight years could and did handle the hoe; they were not much older when they began to hold the plough. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She's out to the house, now, watchin' de hoe-cake. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Rubber tubes for conducting the seed through the hollow holes were introduced in place of the metal spouts that answered both as a spout and a hoe. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The first rapid printing press of the Hoe Company was set up in the office of the _New York Tribune_ in 1871, and its maximum output was 18,000 an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After a while I tired of this work, as hoeing corn in a hot sun is unattractive, and I did not wonder that it had built up cities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Out in the fields he could see still other women hoeing, weeding, or gathering. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He'd take him back, and put him to hoeing and digging, and see if he'd step about so smart. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- No ploughs and no hoes have been found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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