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A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.


v., hoed, hoe·ing, hoes.

v.tr.

To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.

v.intr.

To work with a hoe.

[Middle English howe, from Old French houe, of Germanic origin.]

hoer ho'er n.
 
 

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An angled instrument with the broad dimension of its blade perpendicular to the axis of the shank of the shaft.

 
usually a flat blade, variously shaped, set in a long wooden handle and used primarily for weeding and for loosening the soil. It was the first distinctly agricultural implement. The earliest hoes were forked sticks. Heavy flaked-stone implements mounted with bitumen were used in Mesopotamia in the 5th millennium B.C. They occur together with flint-bladed sickles and grinding stones—all of which are indications of farming settlements. Hoe blades were made of animal antlers and scapulae, or shoulder blades, and of shells. Variations on the hoe, such as the pick, the adz, and the plow, appeared as the blade progressed from stone to copper, bronze, iron, and steel. Modern garden hoes are of two types, the drag hoe and the thrust hoe. Truck farms use light scraping hoes, chopping hoes, and multibladed hoes, and in large-scale agriculture a cultivating implement called a rotary hoe is used for weeding. The hoe symbolizes the garden horticulture that sustained high civilizations, such as those of pre-Columbian America.

Bibliography

See M. Partridge, Farm Tools Through the Ages (1973).


 

Any one of a number of long-handled tools used to loosen the soil or to cut out weeds.

 
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IN BRIEF: A gardening tool used to loosen the soil or to remove weeds. Also: To use such a tool.

pronunciation Gardening takes a plot of land, a hoe and willing muscles. — Grace Firth

Tutor's tip: Note: "Ho" is an exclamation for good or bad events. A "hoe" is a flat-bladed tool used to weed a garden.

 
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Translations: Translations for: Hoe

Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - hakke, hyppejern, lugejern
v. tr. - hakke, hyppe, luge
v. intr. - guffe i sig, skovle ind, kaste sig over

2.
n. - svin, gris

Nederlands (Dutch)
schoffelen, schoffel moeilijke opgave

Français (French)
1.
n. - houe, binette
v. tr. - sarcler, biner (le sol)
v. intr. - sarcler, biner (le sol)

idioms:

  • hoe in    biner dans, sarcler dans
  • hoe into    biner dans

2.
n. - prostituée

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Hacke
v. - hacken

idioms:

  • hoe in    einhacken
  • hoe into    (Austr)(NZ) attackieren , kritisieren

2.
n. - Hure

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - τσαπίζω, σκαλίζω
n. - τσάπα, σκαλιστήρι, αξίνα

Italiano (Italian)
sarchiare, zappa

idioms:

  • a hard/tough row to hoe    una brutta gatta da pelare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - enxada (f)
n. - cavar com enxada

idioms:

  • a hard/tough row to hoe    tarefa difícil de fazer-se

Русский (Russian)
мотыга, мыс, мотыжить

idioms:

  • a hard/tough row to hoe    трудная задача

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - azada, azadón
v. tr. - usar una azada
v. intr. - azadonar, sachar, cultivar usando una azada

idioms:

  • hoe in    comer con ansiedad, engullir
  • hoe into    atacar o criticar

2.
n. - prostituta

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - hacka, kupa
n. - hacka, kuphacka

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
锄头, 为锄草, 锄, 用锄干活

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鋤頭
v. tr. - 為鋤草, 鋤
v. intr. - 用鋤幹活

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 괭이
v. tr. - 괭이질하다, 제초기로 파헤치다
v. intr. - 괭이를 사용하다, 제초기로 파헤치다

2.
n. - 제초기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 長柄の鍬, ホー, 鍬, くわ
v. - 鍬を入れる, 除草器で掘り起こす, くわで耕す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يعزق الأرض (الاسم) معزقه, مجرفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מעדר, מכוש‬
v. tr. - ‮ניכש, תיחח, עדר‬
v. intr. - ‮השתמש במכוש או במעדר‬
n. - ‮זונה‬


 
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