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Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

• For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
• It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.

• The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.ambitransitive

• to hoe the earth in a garden
• Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.

To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.transitive

• to hoe corn

Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).alt-ofalternativederogatory

• Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes
• Fuck all you hoes. Get a grip, motherfucker.

Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).USalt-ofalternative

• Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.OrkneyShetland