hoe
pronunciation
How to pronounce hoe in British English:
UK [həʊ]
How to pronounce hoe in American English:
US [hoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
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- Verb:
- dig with a hoe
Word Origin
- hoe
- hoe: see hay
- hoe (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French houe (12c.), from Frankish *hauwa, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cognates: Old High German houwa "hoe, mattock, pick-axe," German Haue), from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (see hew). The verb is first recorded early 15c. Related: Hoed; hoeing.
Example
- 1. Using a hoe , gently cover the seeds with soil .
- 2. Grandpa straightened up tiredly and leaned his chin on the hoe handle .
- 3. Lindsay baker walks through the streets of thurber carrying a hoe .
- 4. And , I 'll bet , as his hoe rang on the landlord 's clay , his dad imagined a day when he 'd hear his boy take step after crunching step toward anyplace but this field .
- 5. His garden is a thin layer of soil over mounds of waste glass fibre that , if disturbed by his hoe , " is really itchy , because it gets under your skin , and is not good for the vegetables " .