Browsing By Tag "hoe"
Browsing By Tag "hoe"
Pronunciation : Hoe
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OF. hoe, F. houe; of German origin, cf. OHG. houwa, howa, G. haue, fr. OHG. houwan to hew. See Hew to cut.]
Definition : 1. 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. (Zo?l.)
Defn: The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. -- Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Hoe
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. F. houer.]
Definition : Defn: To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. To hoe one's row, to do one's share of a job. [Colloq.]
t. [imp. & p. p. Hoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoeing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Hoe
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
I remember when laborers were paid only seven or eight shillings a-week, and their food was mostly barley cake and potatoes. They used to help themselves to swede turnips out of the fields, and to all the fuel they cooked with. They are better off now, but still it is sad enough. The people have been driven out of the villages to seek work in the towns. In 1857 the population of this village was 595, and in 1881 it was 422-a decrease of 173 in 30 years. The number of houses is less by 24. At the present time a farm laborer has eleven shillings a-week wages, and a house valued at from one shilling to eighteen pence a week rent. In hay-making time he gets ten shillings beer money. At wheat harvest he has £1, and during wheat tying, whic... (From : AnarchyArchives.)