rotary hoe

American  

noun

1. a cultivating implement consisting of a row of wheels each with many fingerlike prongs, pulled over the ground to break up the soil and destroy weeds.

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Example Sentences

As soon as the green spikes pierce the black soil, it is cultivated with a rotary hoe.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Japanese Model KF850 power cultivator has a detachable rotary hoe and a diesel engine with direct drive.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.