hoe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
  2. verb dig with a hoe
    • He is hoeing the flower beds

WordNet

Hoe noun
Etymology
OF. hoe, F. houe; of German origin, cf. OHG. houwa, howa, G. haue, fr. OHG. houwan to hew. See Hew to cut.
Definitions
  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 of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
  2. (Zoöl.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
Hoe transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. houer.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Hoed ; present participle & verbal noun Hoeing
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Webster 1913