hoe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.
2. v. To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.
3. v. To work with a hoe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An implement for digging, scraping, or loosening earth, cutting weeds, etc., made in various forms. The common hoe, also called draw-hoe and field-hoe, consists of a blade of iron set transversely at a convenient angle at the end of a long handle. In the Dutch hoe, push-hoe, or scuffiehoe the cutting blade is set like the blade of a spade.
2. To cut, dig, scrape, or clean with a hoe.
3. To clear from weeds or cultivate with a hoe: as, to hoe turnips or cabbages.
4. To use a hoe.
5. n. The common dogfish, Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris; also, a name of several other kinds of sharks. See cut under dogfish.
6. n. A variant of how.
7. n. An obsolete form of ho.
8. To play or dance a hoe-down.
9. n. See hoey.

Wiktionary

1. n. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
2. v. To use the agricultural tool defined above.
3. n. US, slang alternative spelling of ho. A prostitute.
4. v. US, slang alternative spelling of ho. To act as a prostitute.
5. n. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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. n. (Zoöl.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
3. v. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; ; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
4. v. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. dig with a hoe
2. n. a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle