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HOE

A hoe is an instrument for cutting up weeds and loosening the earth in fields and gardens. In shape the hoe is something like an adze, being a plate of iron or steel, with an eye for a handle, which is set at a convenient angle with the plate. The Dutch hoe differs from the common hand hoe in having the cutting blade set like the blade of a spade. A horse-hoe is a frame wheel-mounted, and furnished with ranges of shares spaced so as to work in the intervals between the rows of turnips, potatoes, etc. It is used on farms for the same purpose as the hand hoe, and was formerly pulled by horse-power.
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