hoe

Plural: hoes

Noun

• a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
• 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.
• 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.
• Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
• A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
• The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

Verb

Verb Forms: hoed, hoeing, hoes

• To cultivate or clear ground using a hoe.
• dig with a hoe
  • "He is hoeing the flower beds"
• To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
• To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
• Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

Examples

• Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
• 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.
• He needed to HOE through his letters to find a playable word.
• I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
• 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 hoe corn
• to hoe the earth in a garden

Synonyms

'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, hackney, hand hoe, harlot, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl

Related Words

mattock, pick, rake

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