hoe in

British  

verb

1. informal  (intr, adverb) to eat food heartily

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Example Sentences

With a bow rake or an oscillating hoe in hand, he kicks off the new season with a quick pass over each bed, “tickling the soil surface,” he said, rather than upending it, “to disturb any weeds seeds that might be germinating.”

From Seattle Times

And being as conservative as the triple option presents itself, it’s just a tough row to hoe in today’s game.

From Washington Post

Clearly, Booker has chosen a hard row to hoe in a deep red state, but as someone who has beaten the odds before, he rejects the conventional wisdom that little can be done to rise above the urban-rural culture war threatening to tear our nation apart.

From New York Times

“I had a big hoe in my hand, and it went, ‘clonk,’” said Mr. Craig-Brown, speaking by phone on Thursday from his farm near Hamilton, where a cow could be heard in the background.

From New York Times

The 30-year-old from Saskatchewan, home to nearly half of Canada’s agricultural production, grew up smack dab in the middle of farmland with houses sprinkled here and there and could just as easily be wielding a hoe in cowboy boots.

From Seattle Times