hoe has definitions from the field of agriculture
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[ noun ] a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

The mercenaries were little interested in farming and added nothing to the output of the farm plots on which all work was still done with hoes as late as 1818 .

Related terms

tool scuffle hoe_handle

2
[ verb ] (agriculture) dig with a hoe

Examples

"He is hoeing the flower beds"

Related terms

till farming dig

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