hoes

Noun (1)

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
   • For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.

   Synonyms:

   hand hoe

2. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
   • The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

Noun (2)

hoe (plural hoes)

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

Noun (3)

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

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Noun (1)

ho

1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
   • O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature I3...

Noun (2)

ho (plural hos or hoes or (humorous, nonstandard) heaux)

1. (US, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
   • Bros before hoes!
2. (US, offensive, slang, vulgar) A woman in general; a bitch.

Noun (3)

ho (plural hos)

1. (US, obsolete, slang, vulgar) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
   • Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v

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