Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A combined rake and hoe.
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Examples
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An honest provincialism has escaped Mr. Stabler's weeding-hoe here and there, and we get a few glimpses, in spite of him, into log-cabin interiors when the inmates are not in their Sunday-clothes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isa. 7: 25); a weeding-hoe.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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To dig into the earth and bury itself, it uses the fore-edge of its head, a sort of weeding-hoe with the two mandibles for points.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Leaning with his hands folded on the handle of the weeding-hoe, his gray beard sweeping over his bosom, his bare, silvered head bowed, and his mild, peaceful blue eyes resting on his son's tomb, Mr. Hammond stood listening to the music; and when the strains ceased, his thoughts travelled onward and upward till they crossed the sea of crystal before the Throne, and in imagination he heard the song of the four and twenty elders.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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