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.
have hoed
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present perfectof hoe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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With General Motors, Ford and Chrysler selling about 92% of 1935 cars, the little companies have hoed a hard row.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dunne seems to have hoed his own row.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
He should have hoed his own row and wiped the sweat of his labors upon his own coat sleeve.
From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie
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
I have hoed corn, piled cord-wood, driven team, picked strawberries, etc.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
