hoe
noun
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
are hoeing
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present progressiveof hoe.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Jarvis and Bob are hoeing potatoes over there in the field.
From Strawberry Acres by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
I don't propose to live like a bondholder while other fellows are hoeing.
From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown
If you want to understand why, go and ensconce yourself behind a hedge, out of sight but in view of a field in which ten or twelve women are hoeing.
From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies
Turning to the interpreter, one of them, Nau-non-gee, remarked, "The white chiefs' wives are amusing themselves very much; it will not be long before they are hoeing in our corn-fields!"
From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
Magnificent farms line the road; at short intervals appear large well-kept vineyards, in which gangs of Chinese coolies are hoeing and pulling weeds, and otherwise keeping trim.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
