hoe

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Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Horom.

Noun

1. 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.
   • 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]
2. 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.
3. 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]

Verb

1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
   • to hoe the earth in a garden
   • Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
   • I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
2. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
   • to hoe corn

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).

Verb

1. Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

Noun

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

Noun

1. The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

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