hoes
Americannoun
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Behind her hundreds of people work side by side, hacking into the rocky ground with hoes and shovels.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It can turn a century-old maker of back hoes and mining trucks into a hot tech stock.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
The farmworkers wanted long-handled hoes, because it hurt their backs to kneel down all day.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023
I looked out over the field at the black men, the backs of their shirts stained with sweat, bent over their hoes chopping weeds among the cotton plants.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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