To cut, dig, scrape or clean with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; to hoe the beds.

A farmer’s instrument for cutting up weeds and loosening the earth in fields and gardens. It is in shape something like an adz, being a plate of iron, with an eye for a handle, which is set at an acute angle with the plate.

To clear from weeds; as, to hoe maiz; to hoe cabbages.

To use a hoe.