verb
definition
To care, be anxious, long.
verb
definition
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
example
Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
definition
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
example
to hoe corn
Examples of hoed in a Sentence
This was not the light in which I hoed them.
I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans.
After sowing, the land is harrowed, and the young plants are hoed and weeded, chiefly by women and children, from early spring until the time of flowering.
Another, turnips all hoed, Barley, Wheat, Beans weeded by sheep.
The hay or leaf mulching on the strawberry beds should be removed and the ground deeply hoed (if not removed in April in the more forward places), after which it may be placed on again to keep the fruit clean and the ground from drying.
The young crop was hoed, reaping was performed with a sickle, and a high stubble left on the ground as manure.
Flower-beds should be kept well hoed and raked, to prevent the growth of weeds next month.
Keep sweet potatoes hoed to prevent the vines rooting at the joints.
These are prepared by cutting down and burning the jungle, which is afterwards hoed, lined and staked in parallel rows running both ways.
Then hoed with a short handled hoe Asparagus has been very thorough.