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hoe

Pronunciation: /həʊ/

The English word “hoe” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
  3. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
  4. The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

verb

  1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
  2. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Etymology

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.

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