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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle;


VERB (1)

1. dig with a hoe;
- Example: "He is hoeing the flower beds"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoe \Hoe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoeing.] [Cf. F. houer.] 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. [1913 Webster] To hoe one's row, to do one's share of a job. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoe \Hoe\, v. i. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoe \Hoe\, n. [OF. hoe, F. houe; of German origin, cf. OHG. houwa, howa, G. haue, fr. OHG. houwan to hew. See Hew to cut.] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. [1913 Webster] Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hoe n 1: a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle v 1: dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoe": backset, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, fallow, fertilize, force, harrow, list, mulch, plow, prune, rake, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, work