transitive. To work at or on with a bill; to hoe, hack, chop, lop.

transitive. Scottish (chiefly eastern and southern). To hoe, loosen (ground) with a hoe; to scrape clean (a floor, etc.) with a hoe or implement…

transitive. To hoe.

To break or stir up (the ground) with a hoe, so as to loosen the surface and destroy weeds; to dress with a hoe. See also row, n.1 phrases 4a…

Agriculture. transitive. To hoe or plough up (soil) into ridges. Cf. hack, n.1 5. Obsolete.

transitive. To hoe (a crop, an area of land, etc.) by hand. Cf. hand hoe, n.

(transitive) to hoe with a hoe-plough.

transitive. To scarify or stir the surface (of land) with a thrust-hoe or horse-hoe; to hoe (a crop), cup up (weeds), turn in (seed) by means of a…

intransitive and transitive. To free from weeds, etc., with a small hoe.

transitive. To hoe (crops) with a shim.

transitive or absol. To hoe (or stir up the earth as in hoeing) with an implement drawn by a horse; to work with a horse-hoe.

transitive. To work (land) with a nidget. Also intransitive.

transitive. English regional. To ‘set out’ with the hoe. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive to dig with a prong hoe.