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hoe-cake — hoeˈ cake noun (US) A thin cake of ground maize (orig baked on a hoe blade) • • • Main Entry: ↑hoe … Useful english dictionary
Hoe (tool) — For other uses, see Hoe (disambiguation). Azada redirects here. For video game by Big Fish Games, see Azada (video game). A person uses a hoe to cultivate vegetables. A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural tool used to move small amounts… … Wikipedia
Hoe — Hoe, n. [OF. hoe, F. houe; of German origin, cf. OHG. houwa, howa, G. haue, fr. OHG. houwan to hew. See {Hew} to cut.] 1. A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hoe´like´ — hoe «hoh», noun, verb, hoed, hoe|ing. –n. a tool with a thin blade set across the end of a long handle, used for loosening soil or cutting weeds. –v.t. to loosen, dig, or cut with a hoe: »to hoe a garden. –v.i. to use a hoe. ╂[< Old French… … Useful english dictionary
hoe — ► NOUN ▪ a long handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for cutting through weeds at their roots. ► VERB (hoes, hoed, hoeing) 1) use a hoe to turn (earth) or cut through (weeds). 2) (hoe in) Austral./NZ informal eat eagerly … English terms dictionary
hoe-cake — 1745, Amer.Eng., said to be so called because it originally was baked on the broad thin blade of a cotton field HOE (Cf. hoe) … Etymology dictionary
hoe — [hō] n. [ME houe < OFr < OHG houwa < houwan, to cut, HEW] a tool with a thin, flat blade set across the end of a long handle, used for weeding, loosening soil, etc. vt., vi. hoed, hoeing to dig, cultivate, weed, etc. with a hoe hoer n … English World dictionary
hoe — hoer, n. hoelike, adj. /hoh/, n., v., hoed, hoeing. n. 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,… … Universalium
hoe — n. & v. n. a long handled tool with a thin metal blade, used for weeding etc. v. (hoes, hoed, hoeing) 1 tr. weed (crops); loosen (earth); dig up or cut down with a hoe. 2 intr. use a hoe. Phrases and idioms: hoe cake US a coarse cake of maize… … Useful english dictionary
Blade — For other uses, see Blade (disambiguation). Knife blades A blade is that portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with a cutting edge and/or a pointed tip that is designed to cut and/or puncture, stab, slash, chop, slice, thrust, or scrape animate… … Wikipedia
hoe — [[t]ho͟ʊ[/t]] hoes, hoeing, hoed 1) N COUNT A hoe is a gardening tool with a long handle and a small square blade, which you use to remove small weeds and break up the surface of the soil. 2) VERB If you hoe a field or crop, you use a hoe on the… … English dictionary