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hoe

   [hoh] noun, verb, hoed, hoe·ing.
noun
1.
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
2.
any of various implements of similar form, as for mixing plaster or mortar.
verb (used with object)
3.
to dig, scrape, weed, cultivate, etc., with a hoe.

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verb (used without object)
4.
to use a hoe.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English howe < Old French houe < Germanic; compare Middle Dutch houwe, Old High German houwa mattock; akin to hew

Related forms
ho·er, noun
hoe·like, adjective
un·hoed, adjective
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hoe (həʊ)
 
—n
1.  any of several kinds of long-handled hand implement equipped with a light blade and used to till the soil, eradicate weeds, etc
 
—vb , hoes, hoeing, hoed
2.  to dig, scrape, weed, or till (surface soil) with or as if with a hoe
 
[C14: via Old French houe from Germanic: compare Old High German houwā, houwan to hew, German Haue hoe]
 
'hoer
 
—n
 
'hoelike
 
—adj

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hoe
1363, from O.Fr. houe (12c.), from Frank. *hauwa (cf. O.H.G. houwa "hoe, mattock, pick-axe"), related to O.E. heawan "to cut" (see hew). The verb is first recorded c.1430. Hoe-cake, 1745, Amer.Eng., was said originally to have been baked on the broad thin blade of a cotton-field
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hoe. Hoedown "noisy dance" first recorded 1841, probably from perceived parallel of dance motions to those of farm chores.
"As to dancing, no Long-Island negro could shuffle you 'double trouble,' or 'hoe corn and dig potatoes' more scientifically." [Washington Irving, "Salmagundi," March 7, 1807]
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hoe definition


and ho
  1. n.
    a prostitute; a whore. (Originally black. Streets.) : Get them hoes outa here!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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