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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.
–verb (used without object)
4. to use a hoe.
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Origin:
1325–75; ME howe < OF houe < Gmc; cf. MD houwe, OHG houwa mattock; akin to hew

Related forms:
hoer, noun
hoelike, adjective
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n.  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; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]
ho'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hoe

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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Word Origin & History

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 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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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