vi to use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
2. hoe ·noun the horned or piked dogfish. ·see dogfish.
3. hoe ·vt 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.
4. hoe ·noun 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.