hoe

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[həʊ], (Noun)

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- a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding
(e.g: loosen the dry soil with a hoe)


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Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew


[həʊ], (Verb)

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- use a hoe to dig (earth) or thin out or dig up (plants)
(e.g: we were out in the fields, planting crops and hoeing weeds)

- eat eagerly
(e.g: we hoed in like a horde of hungry locusts)


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Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew


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