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Hoe
Definitions
- 1 A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF995211).
- 2 A surname.
- 1 Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; 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.
"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."
- 2 Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”). alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang
"Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes"
- 3 A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
- 4 The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias. Orkney, Shetland
- 5 a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle wordnet
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- 6 Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
"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]"
- 7 A sexually loose woman wordnet
- 1 To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. ambitransitive
"to hoe the earth in a garden"
- 2 Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”). US, alt-of, alternative, slang
"Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up."
- 3 dig with a hoe wordnet
- 4 To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. transitive
"to hoe corn"
Etymology
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.
From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.
Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.
From Old English hōh (“heel; spur of a hill”).
Two main origins: * A variant of Ho, a Vietnamese surname. * An English habitational surname, from the village in Norfolk.
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