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An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat…Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.: An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
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Meaning
4 sensesAny of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
Hacke
тя́пкаtjápka, моты́гаmotýga
моти́каmotýka
a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]
A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
(Orkney, Shetland)The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
Examples
21 sentencesDo you have a hoe I could borrow?
Do you have a hoe that I could borrow?
This is a hoe.
ruЭто тяпка. — Selena777
Be careful when working with a hoe.
Працюючи сапою, будь обережним. — deniko
That's a hard row to hoe.
deDas ist ein hartes Stück Arbeit. — brauchinet
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of FranFrom Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.
Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.
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