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nounPlural hoes həʊhoʊ A long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. Example sentencesExamples - Use a hoe with a small, sharp blade to slice them off just under the soil surface.
- If the soil is hard the chaka hoe is recommended as ordinary weeding hoes would break and are not suited to digging.
- But many hoes and other small tools are of very poor quality and break after a few weeks.
- The circular shape of the hoe allows you to pull it through the soil toward you, leaving sliced weeds in its wake.
- In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
- If weeding a large flower bed, you can use a hoe, but take care not to damage the roots of the plants around them.
- Winter weeds are wimps, so you can weed with a hoe instead of a spade.
- They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
- The garden hoe is used for chopping weeds so they don't grow back and for spreading soil in the garden.
- Some tools like rakes, shovels and hoes can be easily hung up in the shed on nails.
- Things you need are a soaker hose, a hoe, fertilizer, seeds, and gardening gloves.
- Sure there are some people who enjoy getting a little dirty while they plant their flowers, but even those types of people have the most basic of gardening tools, like a rake or a hoe.
- We used long-handled hoes with heavy heads that we kept razor sharp, but it was still slow work.
- The best hoes for weeding have sharply angled blades which slide along or just under the soil surface.
- I weeded with a hoe and shook bugs off plants with my hands from sunrise to sunset.
- A hoe is another fine tool no garden - or gardener - should be without.
- Traditional garden hoes with updated design refinements make weeding easier while minimally disturbing the soil.
- A quick scratch with a hoe will easily eliminate any weeds and keep the soil loose and fluffy.
- These women cultivated with simple tools, a hoe, trowel, or shovel in one hand and seeds or fertilizer in the other hand.
- Many gardeners find that the most efficient tool for this task is some type of scuffle hoe, which cuts weeds at or just below the soil surface.
verbhoeing, hoes, hoed həʊhoʊ 1with object Use a hoe to dig (earth) or thin out or dig up (plants). Example sentencesExamples - Some farmers have improved the weed control by adding a second set of hoe wheels behind the first set so that the crop is actually hoed twice with each pass, or by going over the field twice.
- They then hoe the ground in patches at a prescribed spacing and broad-cast the seed collected from other forests to ensure natural regeneration to a desired extent.
- They got too tall to clear out with the cultivator, so Fred and I and the two other farm hands had to hoe a six-acre field by hand.
- After Charlie finished hoeing the row of lettuce, she came and sat down on the ground beside him.
- When the plants are 8 inches tall, they are half-buried by hoeing soil up and over them from each side of the row.
- We were able to rotary hoe the corn on time and that has helped with the first flush of weeds.
- Jonas hoed the garden for Nana, which should have been seeded three weeks ago.
- There was a man talking to their father in the yard while their father hoed the little strawberry patch.
- Beds can be lightly hoed and covered with a mulch of spent mushroom compost, chipped bark or cocoa shells.
- The idea is that after harvesting you will not need to plough or hoe the land for the new planting season.
- In the study's first year, wheat plants were hoed out in February to the appropriate winterkill levels.
- If it's sunny, try to hoe weeds in borders and between plants, making sure that their roots are exposed.
- Soil should be moist whenever you are hoeing or pulling weeds.
- I start by hoeing a trench eight inches or so deep.
- To supplement the farm income, Dad would go out and hoe beets for neighboring beet producers.
- Every field had to be hoed for weeds three times, carefully hilling soil around each young stalk.
- Otherwise, I had a general potter - hoed the soft fruit bed, swept up the paths, tidied the shed.
- He didn't fertilize the ground, but hoed it a lot instead, which he felt made up for the lack of nutrients.
- They hoe, plant, and weed, and harvest the crops.
- ‘If you have ever raked, hoed, or weeded a garden bed, you already know that gardening is a good workout,’ Restuccio says.
2hoe intoAustralian NZ informal no object Eat eagerly. Example sentencesExamples - Here's a story to think about as you hoe into lunch this afternoon.
- Disregarding etiquette, I hoe in with my fingers to ensure that none of the precious flesh is wasted.
- To them, it tastes as good as medium rare steak and they hoe into it with just as much glee.
- However, given that it was Mother's Day, I couldn't really start hoeing into her meal, now could I?
- She was hoeing into her plate of chips and Bob had his head behind the orientation magazine.
- 2.1hoe into Attack or criticize.
Example sentencesExamples - They're all at hoeing into Natasha, or Meg, depending on personal allegiances.
- They wanted to hoe into him and he had to be put in a police car for his own protection
Derivatives noun If you are not a hoer, you are not a gardener, and it will be a disaster.
Origin Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew. Rhymes aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou nounhoʊhō A long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding and breaking up soil. Example sentencesExamples - If weeding a large flower bed, you can use a hoe, but take care not to damage the roots of the plants around them.
- Some tools like rakes, shovels and hoes can be easily hung up in the shed on nails.
- These women cultivated with simple tools, a hoe, trowel, or shovel in one hand and seeds or fertilizer in the other hand.
- Use a hoe with a small, sharp blade to slice them off just under the soil surface.
- But many hoes and other small tools are of very poor quality and break after a few weeks.
- A quick scratch with a hoe will easily eliminate any weeds and keep the soil loose and fluffy.
- Many gardeners find that the most efficient tool for this task is some type of scuffle hoe, which cuts weeds at or just below the soil surface.
- Traditional garden hoes with updated design refinements make weeding easier while minimally disturbing the soil.
- The best hoes for weeding have sharply angled blades which slide along or just under the soil surface.
- If the soil is hard the chaka hoe is recommended as ordinary weeding hoes would break and are not suited to digging.
- Sure there are some people who enjoy getting a little dirty while they plant their flowers, but even those types of people have the most basic of gardening tools, like a rake or a hoe.
- The garden hoe is used for chopping weeds so they don't grow back and for spreading soil in the garden.
- We used long-handled hoes with heavy heads that we kept razor sharp, but it was still slow work.
- Things you need are a soaker hose, a hoe, fertilizer, seeds, and gardening gloves.
- I weeded with a hoe and shook bugs off plants with my hands from sunrise to sunset.
- They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
- In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
- Winter weeds are wimps, so you can weed with a hoe instead of a spade.
- The circular shape of the hoe allows you to pull it through the soil toward you, leaving sliced weeds in its wake.
- A hoe is another fine tool no garden - or gardener - should be without.
verbhoʊhō [with object]Use a hoe to dig (earth) or thin out or dig up (plants). Example sentencesExamples - In the study's first year, wheat plants were hoed out in February to the appropriate winterkill levels.
- To supplement the farm income, Dad would go out and hoe beets for neighboring beet producers.
- Soil should be moist whenever you are hoeing or pulling weeds.
- If it's sunny, try to hoe weeds in borders and between plants, making sure that their roots are exposed.
- We were able to rotary hoe the corn on time and that has helped with the first flush of weeds.
- They got too tall to clear out with the cultivator, so Fred and I and the two other farm hands had to hoe a six-acre field by hand.
- Beds can be lightly hoed and covered with a mulch of spent mushroom compost, chipped bark or cocoa shells.
- ‘If you have ever raked, hoed, or weeded a garden bed, you already know that gardening is a good workout,’ Restuccio says.
- They then hoe the ground in patches at a prescribed spacing and broad-cast the seed collected from other forests to ensure natural regeneration to a desired extent.
- Jonas hoed the garden for Nana, which should have been seeded three weeks ago.
- I start by hoeing a trench eight inches or so deep.
- They hoe, plant, and weed, and harvest the crops.
- Some farmers have improved the weed control by adding a second set of hoe wheels behind the first set so that the crop is actually hoed twice with each pass, or by going over the field twice.
- The idea is that after harvesting you will not need to plough or hoe the land for the new planting season.
- When the plants are 8 inches tall, they are half-buried by hoeing soil up and over them from each side of the row.
- He didn't fertilize the ground, but hoed it a lot instead, which he felt made up for the lack of nutrients.
- Every field had to be hoed for weeds three times, carefully hilling soil around each young stalk.
- After Charlie finished hoeing the row of lettuce, she came and sat down on the ground beside him.
- Otherwise, I had a general potter - hoed the soft fruit bed, swept up the paths, tidied the shed.
- There was a man talking to their father in the yard while their father hoed the little strawberry patch.
Origin Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew. |