hoe-handle

As for its legs, the right was a hoe-handle, and the left an undistinguished and miscellaneous stick from the wood pile.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

They were at work in the cornfield, and the boy's request took his employer so by surprise that his hoe-handle dropped from his grasp.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

As for its legs, the right was a hoe-handle, and the left an undistinguished and miscellaneous stick from the wood-pile.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

Hauchawout caught him tapping at her shutter at two in the morning and beat him up with a hoe-handle.

Ida Hauchawout 1923

I swung the lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at them recklessly.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid rails, and the precious water filled in slowly, grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures panted and snuffed in the dark just outside the radius of the hoe-handle, until at last we could let them in.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

He would stand with 's owlish old visage a-set on 's hoe-handle, for all th 'world like a fantastic head carved out o' a turnip and set on a stick, and a would let th 'lad go on with 's story

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

So I look at my hoe-handle, and say I, "My lady, it is known to me."

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

When, at a critical point, a player missed a shot, he was deluged, by those financially interested in his making it, with a flood of epithets synonymous with "chump"; While from the others he would be jeered by such remarks as "Nigger, dat cue ain't no hoe-handle."

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1904

A farmer-man who had come to the end of a row in a field near the highway fence leaned on his hoe-handle and squinted against the sun at the face of the passer-by.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900