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   hoe

   /həʊ/

   noun

   • 1. a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding: "loosen the dry soil with a hoe"

   verb

   • 1. use a hoe to dig (earth) or thin out or dig up (plants): "we were out in the fields, planting crops and hoeing weeds"
   • 2. eat eagerly: informal Australian, New Zealand "we hoed in like a horde of hungry locusts"
   • ▪ attack or criticize: "the media have hoed into him in recent years"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hoer noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • H

     4

   • O

     1

   • E

     1

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