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HOE

Volume 8 · 86 words · 1797 Edition

or How, a husbandman's tool, made like a cooper's adz, to cut up weeds in gardens, fields, &c. This instrument is of great use, and ought to be much more employed than it is in hacking and clearing the several corners and patches of land in spare times of the year, which would be no small advantage to it.

Horse-Hoe a large kind of hoe drawn by horses, and used to stir the intervals in the new husbandry, and clear the corn from weeds. See Agriculture.