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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

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 Benson, Stella

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 Robinson, Solon

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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Dunne seems to have hoed his own row.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)