What is "hoe"

Hoe \Hoe\, n. [OF. hoe, F. houe; of German origin, cf. OHG. houwa, howa, G. haue, fr. OHG. houwan to hew. See Hew to cut.]

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["o]l.) 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.

Hoe \Hoe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoeing.] [Cf. F. houer.] 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.]

Hoe \Hoe\, v. i. To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

mid-14c., from Old French houe (12c.), from Frankish *hauwa, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cognates: Old High German houwa "hoe, mattock, pick-axe," German Haue), from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (see hew). The verb is first recorded early 15c. Related: Hoed; hoeing.

Etymology 1 n. 1 An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows. 2 The horned or piked dogfish. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. 2 (context transitive English) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. Etymology 2

alt. (context US slang English) (alternative spelling of ho lang=en gloss=whore, prostitute). n. (context US slang English) (alternative spelling of ho lang=en gloss=whore, prostitute). vb. (context US slang English) (alternative spelling of ho lang=en gloss=to prostitute). Etymology 3

n. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

n. a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

v. dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds"

A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural hand tool used to shape the soil, control weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping the soil can be piling soil around the base of plants ( hilling), creating narrow furrows ( drills) and shallow trenches for planting seeds and bulbs. Weed control with a hoe can be by agitating the surface of the soil or by cutting foliage from the roots, and clearing soil of old roots and crop residues. Hoes for digging and moving soil are used harvesting root crops such as potatoes.

Hoe or HOE may refer to:

• Hoe (dish), a Korean dish of raw fish
• Hoe (letter), a Georgian letter
• Hoe (tool), a hand tool used in gardening and farming
• Backhoe, a piece of excavating equipment
• Codename for Hoechst AG compounds, e.g. Nomifensine = Hoe 984, & Pirinidazole = Hoe-088, etc.

Hoe (asomtavruli , nuskhuri , mkhedruli ჵ) is the 38th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 10,000. Now obsolete in Georgian.

Hoe ( ~ ) may refer to various raw food dishes in Korean cuisine. Saengseon hoe (생선회) or "Hwareo hoe" (활어회) is thinly sliced raw fish or other raw seafood (similar to Japanese sashimi); yukhoe (육회) is hoe made with raw beef and seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil, and rice wine; and gan hoe (간회) is raw beef liver with a sauce of sesame oil and salt.

Saengseon hoe is also called sashimi (사시미) although It is unknown whether saengseon hoe is derived from sashimi. Despite the government's efforts to purify the Korean language, the term sashimi is still used in many restaurants.

Fish hoe is usually dipped in a spicy gochujang-based sauce called chogochujang (초고추장) or Ssamjang (쌈장), and wrapped in lettuce and Korean perilla leaves.

When people finish a meal of saengseon hoe at a restaurant, they sometimes order maeuntang (spicy fish stew, from the fish heads and remaining meat) together with various vegetables.