hoe

Meaning

Noun

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds.

Verb

1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
2. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Verb

Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

Synonyms

spade

mattock

daba

pickax

weed

shovel

dig

pick

⛏️

spud

cultivate

plow

whore

hack

bitch

hew

pierce

plough

poke

rake

sew

weeder

mattok

pick-hoe

peck

pecker

pewter

excavate

digger

pick-axe

grafting tool

flattening tool

delve

straw rake

rabble

plough harrow

raking

scuffle

sarcle

cultivator

small

crash

clean

strumpet

thin

tool

chop

garden hoe

weeding tool

axe

🪓

digging tool

Dutch hoe

gate-crash

archaeologist

small hoe

Daba

harlot

harrow

scuffle hoe

ho

farm

mine

miner

musical instrument

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to cut, hew”). More at hew.