hoe

CEFRC1

/həʊ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A garden tool with a long handle and flat blade.

  2. 02

    verb

    To loosen soil or remove weeds with a hoe.

Examples

  • Be careful when working with a hoe.

  • Make the hoe your sword, and the sword your hoe.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /hoʊ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

  2. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

  • For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.

  • The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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