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hoe into

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verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Sheild credited his partner with introducing the labor-saving double-edged hoe into the mix.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015

He liked the work, for he was alone and could give himself up to thought as he drove the hoe into the yielding earth.

From Under Sealed Orders by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

So when he had finished his own, the friar put his hoe into his neighbor's patch, and worked until the sweat rolled down his thin cheeks.

From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Presently, he came to a carob-tree and struck the hoe into its roots.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne

Then he threw the hoe into the river.

From Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

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