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Look up: hoe

  1. Hoe
    A hoe is an instrument for cutting up weeds and loosening the earth in fields and gardens.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. hoe
    [n] - a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle 2. [v] - dig with a hoe
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. HOE
    Homing Overlay Experiment [US]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  4. hoe
    an excavating machine in which the bucket is rigidly attached to a hinged stick on the boom and is drawn toward the machine in operation WEBIN 66 1-.. Category: Building industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Hoe
    Hoe noun [ Old French hoe , French houe ; of German origin, confer Old High German houwa , howa , German haue , from Old High German 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 ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  6. Hoe
    Hoe transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hoed ; present participle & verbal noun Hoeing .] [ Confer French 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. < ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  7. Hoe
    Hoe intransitive verb To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  8. hoe
    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. <zoology> The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. hoe
    noun a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. hoe
    verb dig with a hoe; `He is hoeing the flower beds`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. Hoe
    `Hoe` may refer to: * Hoe (tool), a hand tool used in gardening * Hoe (dish), a Korean dish of raw fish * Plymouth Hoe * A prostitute (slang)
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe

  12. Hoe
    • (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. • (v. t.) 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. • (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. hoe
    one of the oldest tools of agriculture, a digging implement consisting of a blade set at right angles to a long handle. The blade of the modern hoe ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/59

  14. hoe
    ho, hoe A derogatory U.S. slang term for a promiscuous female; a respelling of whore meant to represent a Black American pronunciation and usage. After calling the NCAA finalists of the Rutgers women's basketball team 'nappy headed hos' on his radio show last week, many people believed Don Imus had crossed the line one too many times. After repeated ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  15. hoe
    A hand tool used in gardening and farming for tilling, weeding, or loosening the earth around plants. A hoe has a thin flat metal blade attached to a (usually wooden) handle. Hoes come with many different types of blade, depending on the purpose. Some can perform multiple functions. Others are inten...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  16. hoe
    hoe, usually a flat blade, variously shaped, set in a long wooden handle and used primarily for weeding and for loosening the soil. It was the first distinctly agricultural implement. The earliest hoes were forked sticks. Heavy flaked-stone implements mounted with bitumen were used in Mesopotamia in...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08238


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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