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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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
She had hoed to the far end of the rows and had not returned with the others on that last round after sundown.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
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
And my host who had hoed the whole day long, Hearty at eighty years, sat with his pipe Reading the organ of the Adventists, His wife beside him knitting.
From Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters
She thought of Richard, and wished that she could have hoed a blessing into every bean of his that she had hoed.
From Living Alone by Stella Benson
