HOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoe mean? 

• HOE (noun)
  The noun HOE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HOE used as a noun is very rare.

• HOE (verb)
  The verb HOE has 1 sense:

1. dig with a hoe

  Familiarity information: HOE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hoe" is a kind of...):

tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Meronyms (parts of "hoe"):

hoe handle (the handle of a hoe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoe"):

Dutch hoe; scuffle; scuffle hoe (a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling)

Derivation:

hoe (dig with a hoe)

• HOE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hoe    ... he / she / it hoes   
Past simple: hoed   
Past participle: hoed   
-ing form: hoeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dig with a hoe

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

He is hoeing the flower beds

Hypernyms (to "hoe" is one way to...):

till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)

"Hoe" entails doing...:

cut into; delve; dig; turn over (turn up, loosen, or remove earth)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hoe (a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle)

 Context examples 

And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Whilst the five were trotting thus one behind the other, two labourers came with their hoes from the fields; the parson called out to them and begged that they would set him and the sexton free.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)