Definition of hoes Hoes
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What does hoes mean?
Wiktionary 
- hoes (Noun)
Plural of hoe.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: hoes |
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| hoe - a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle | ||
| tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation | ||
| hoe handle the handle of a hoe | ||
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| hoe - dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds" | ||
| cut into, delve, dig, turn over turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" | ||
| till work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil" | ||
| husbandry, farming, agriculture agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" | ||
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Wiktionary
- hoe (Noun)
An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows. - hoe (Noun)
A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory. - hoe (Verb)
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. - hoe (Verb)
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hoe (n.)
A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle. - hoe (n.)
The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. - hoe (v. t.)
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. - hoe (v. i.)
To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A tool with handle and blade with two or more prongs used for weeding, raking, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hō, n. an instrument for hewing or digging up weeds and loosening the earth.—v.t. to cut or clean with a hoe: to weed.—v.i. to use a hoe:—pr.p. hoe′ing; pa.p. hoed.—ns. Hoe′-cake (U.S.), a thin cake of Indian meal; Hō′er.—A hard, or long, row to hoe, a hard or wearisome task to perform. [O. Fr. houe—Old High Ger. houwa (Ger. haue), a hoe.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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hoe
A knoll, mound, or elevated hillock.
Wikipedia 
- A hoe is a tool in farming and gardening. It has a blade, usually metal, attached to a long handle, usually wood. There are many types of blade, and a variety of uses, probably the most common of which is weeding. Along with the spade and fork, the hoe is considered a basic, essential hand farming implement.
