Hoe

(noun.) a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.

(verb.) dig with a hoe; 'He is hoeing the flower beds'.

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• He had rather a hard row to hoe. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The plough and the hoe are the chief implements with which man has subdued the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Children from the age of eight years could and did handle the hoe; they were not much older when they began to hold the plough. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She's out to the house, now, watchin' de hoe-cake. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Rubber tubes for conducting the seed through the hollow holes were introduced in place of the metal spouts that answered both as a spout and a hoe. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The first rapid printing press of the Hoe Company was set up in the office of the _New York Tribune_ in 1871, and its maximum output was 18,000 an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• After a while I tired of this work, as hoeing corn in a hot sun is unattractive, and I did not wonder that it had built up cities. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Out in the fields he could see still other women hoeing, weeding, or gathering. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He'd take him back, and put him to hoeing and digging, and see if he'd step about so smart. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No ploughs and no hoes have been found. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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