Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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. · Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
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.
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
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