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.
had hoed
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past perfectof hoe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I had hoed corn, and on my knees weeded, in the broiling sun, the young onions.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
So, when the guards had hoed, the King said to them: "Take this Chief Counselor and throw him away."
From The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Foe I jined the Yankees I had hoed and I had picked cotton.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
But at last Bert's sharp eyes espied a faded leather wallet between two hills in one of the rows which the farmer had hoed.
From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Horatio Alger
But when he saw that she had hoed the potatoes after all he was not pleased.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
