Hoe

n.	1.	A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
	2.	(Zool.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. Horse hoe a kind of cultivator.
v. t.	1.	To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. [imp. & p. p. Hoed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoeing.] To hoe one's row to do one's share of a job.
v. i.	1.	To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Noun	1.	hoe - a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
Verb	1.	hoe - dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds"

backset, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, fallow, fertilize, force, harrow, list, mulch, plow, prune, rake, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, work