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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hoe .
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Examples
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When crops are in drills they can be efficiently thinned, weeded and hoed -- in other words, they can be cultivated.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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He hoed furrows three feet apart, arranged a flexible plastic pipe to the highest point in the field, and irrigated the dry ground to the north so it could get used to moisture it had never experienced except as rain.
Alba 2009
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Managing the canopy and keeping the weeds hoed has been a daily effort …
Bryan Calandrelli 2009
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Managing the canopy and keeping the weeds hoed has been a daily effort …
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I think the love of trifle came only after I was allowed to drink alcohol and I hoed in after a few glasses of chardonnay when my weird, idiosyncratic eating behaviour slipped for a bit.
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Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.
Chapter 7 2010
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All I'll have to do is to keep the weeds hoed until the trees come into bearing.
Chapter 9 2010
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Another sensible reason for change every few years is that when a crop is changed, the soil can be hoed or dug over and control is wrested back.
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Yes, he had relettered them and hoed the weeds out.
Chapter VIII 2010
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He hoed furrows three feet apart, arranged a flexible plastic pipe to the highest point in the field, and irrigated the dry ground to the north so it could get used to moisture it had never experienced except as rain.
Alba 2009
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