English-Dutch translations for hoe

• hak
• schoffel
• schoffelen
  Tot dan kunt u echter doen wat een Sloveense spreekwoord zegt: 'Bid om een goede oogst, maar blijf schoffelen.' But in the mean time, as you say in Slovenia, 'pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing'.

Definition of hoe

• An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows
• The horned or piked dogfish
• To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool
• To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe
• A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory

Examples

• to hoe the earth in a garden
• Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration
• I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden
• to hoe corn

Related words

• shoe
• shoetree
• shoelace
• diarrhoea
• shoemaker
• shoes
• shoestring
• backhoe
• horseshoe