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
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
After you have hoed them out, give them a light top dressing of more guano.
From Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers by Solon Robinson
Dunne seems to have hoed his own row.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
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
