Hoe
noun
A tool with a flat blade attached at an angle, used to break up soil.
She uses a hoe to prepare the garden bed for planting.
verb
To use a hoe (the tool) to break up soil.
He spent the afternoon hoeing in the vegetable garden.
Often appears as...
- hoe the garden
- hoe the soil
noun
In informal or slang language, is used as an offensive term for a woman who is regarded as promiscuous.
He disrespectfully referred to her as a hoe.
Often appears as...
- you hoe
- that hoe
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A tool with a flat blade attached at an angle, used to break up soil.
She uses a hoe to prepare the garden bed for planting.
verb
To use a hoe (the tool) to break up soil.
He spent the afternoon hoeing in the vegetable garden.
Often appears as...
- hoe the garden
- hoe the soil
noun
In informal or slang language, is used as an offensive term for a woman who is regarded as promiscuous.
He disrespectfully referred to her as a hoe.
Often appears as...
- you hoe
- that hoe
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Context
Used mainly when discussing gardening or farming activities.
The gardener regularly hoes the soil to control weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Movement
Implies the physical action of pushing or pulling through soil.
He was hoeing tirelessly to create planting rows.
Pro Tip 3/3Weed Control
Often associated with weed removal besides soil preparation.
Hoeing can be an effective way to remove unwanted plants.
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Context
Used mainly when discussing gardening or farming activities.
The gardener regularly hoes the soil to control weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Movement
Implies the physical action of pushing or pulling through soil.
He was hoeing tirelessly to create planting rows.
Pro Tip 3/3Weed Control
Often associated with weed removal besides soil preparation.
Hoeing can be an effective way to remove unwanted plants.
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Context
Used mainly when discussing gardening or farming activities.
The gardener regularly hoes the soil to control weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Movement
Implies the physical action of pushing or pulling through soil.
He was hoeing tirelessly to create planting rows.
Pro Tip 3/3Weed Control
Often associated with weed removal besides soil preparation.
Hoeing can be an effective way to remove unwanted plants.
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3 reasons why we can win...
There's just one many smallholder farmers lack access to basic tools and knowledge. Currently, they take a little bit of saved food grain from the prior year, they plant it in the ground and they till it with a manual hand hoe. These are tools and techniques that date to the Bronze Age,
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The single biggest...
women dying for every man and I would propose with the better longevity that women have overall that women probably should theoretically do better if we could just get treated so this is where we are but we have a long row to hoe
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Helping small-scale...
of the food that the world eats and the problem is that they often go hungry they grow the food the world eats but they go hungry and there are a few reasons for this first these farmers are using a hoe and their manual labor to
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We need nuclear power to...
China has many fewer choices and a much harder row to hoe. If you look at China, and you ask yourself why has coal been important to it, you have to remember what China's done. China brought people to power, not power to people.
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Busted 38 Ton Engine PIPE...
for refurbishing now the crew can focus on getting the replacement thruster back into the hall this is a critical moment the lines from the winches on the Boulder's deck are now connected through the hoe and onto
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Forest Stew PIPE The Legend...
I'm serious man uh how that rock breaks up that's minerals you're the cook Stone Soup is a concoction made up of a stone and whatever other edible plants you can find find a on the hoe don't you think
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Architecture that's...
which means "community works for the community." Hundreds of people came with shovels and hoes, and we excavated that hill in half the time and half the cost of that bulldozer.
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This is what democracy...
Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture. Crops and livestock are being brought to market. In the city, builders raise a tower.
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Stunning Footage: Epic...
150 mile Red Desert to hoe back mule deer migration Yellowstone is this incredible icon for protected areas globally because it was the first
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Billy Graham:...
Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.
Video examples
3 reasons why we can win...
There's just one many smallholder farmers lack access to basic tools and knowledge. Currently, they take a little bit of saved food grain from the prior year, they plant it in the ground and they till it with a manual hand hoe. These are tools and techniques that date to the Bronze Age,
Video examples
The single biggest...
women dying for every man and I would propose with the better longevity that women have overall that women probably should theoretically do better if we could just get treated so this is where we are but we have a long row to hoe
Video examples
Helping small-scale...
of the food that the world eats and the problem is that they often go hungry they grow the food the world eats but they go hungry and there are a few reasons for this first these farmers are using a hoe and their manual labor to
Video examples
We need nuclear power to...
China has many fewer choices and a much harder row to hoe. If you look at China, and you ask yourself why has coal been important to it, you have to remember what China's done. China brought people to power, not power to people.
Video examples
Busted 38 Ton Engine PIPE...
for refurbishing now the crew can focus on getting the replacement thruster back into the hall this is a critical moment the lines from the winches on the Boulder's deck are now connected through the hoe and onto
Video examples
Forest Stew PIPE The Legend...
I'm serious man uh how that rock breaks up that's minerals you're the cook Stone Soup is a concoction made up of a stone and whatever other edible plants you can find find a on the hoe don't you think
Video examples
Architecture that's...
which means "community works for the community." Hundreds of people came with shovels and hoes, and we excavated that hill in half the time and half the cost of that bulldozer.
Video examples
This is what democracy...
Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture. Crops and livestock are being brought to market. In the city, builders raise a tower.
Video examples
Stunning Footage: Epic...
150 mile Red Desert to hoe back mule deer migration Yellowstone is this incredible icon for protected areas globally because it was the first
Video examples
Billy Graham:...
Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.
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Garrison Keillor
American Writer
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.
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Phil Robertson
American Celebrity
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.
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Glen Campbell
American Musician
I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
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Isaac Hanson
American Musician
If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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Saint Bernard
Saint
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Munshi Premchand
Indian Writer
If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
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Edwin Markham
American Poet
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
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Josh Blue
It's a hard road to hoe, doing one-nighters. I remember doing VFWs in Madison, Wisconsin. Those were pretty rough shows.
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B. B. King
American Musician
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
Quote examples
Garrison Keillor
American Writer
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Quote examples
Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.
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Phil Robertson
American Celebrity
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.
Quote examples
Glen Campbell
American Musician
I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
Quote examples
Isaac Hanson
American Musician
If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
Quote examples
Saint Bernard
Saint
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
Quote examples
Munshi Premchand
Indian Writer
If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
Quote examples
Edwin Markham
American Poet
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
Quote examples
Josh Blue
It's a hard road to hoe, doing one-nighters. I remember doing VFWs in Madison, Wisconsin. Those were pretty rough shows.
Quote examples
B. B. King
American Musician
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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