- (v.i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a 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.
- (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.
- (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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