Definition of Hoeing

1. Verb. (present participle of hoe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hoeing

1. hoe [v] - See also: hoe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoeing

hoe-33258
hoe-bag
hoe-bags
hoe-down
hoe bag
hoe bags
hoe down
hoe excavator
hoe handle
hoe scaler
hoecake
hoecakes
hoed
hoedown
hoedowns
hoeing (current term)
hoelike
hoelite
hoemother
hoer
hoers
hoes
hof
hofs
hoful
hog
hog's-back
hog-baying
hog-nosed badger
hog-nosed skunk

Literary usage of Hoeing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sugar-beet in America by Franklin Stewart Harris (1919)
"Much depends on hoeing at the proper time in order that weeds do not get started and take the ... hoeing is often contracted in connection with thinning. ..."

2. British Farmer's Magazine (1855)
"hoeing —ITS PRACTICE. No. II. The true principles of hoeing being understood, no great difficulty will arise in the farmer's mind as to the object he must ..."

3. A Statistical Account of the British Settlements in Australasia: Including by William Charles Wentworth (1824)
"July—hoeing and planting } an acre of potatoes 6 Falling trees on 71 acres, ... hoeing 7 £ acres new land Sept. ^ for maize - 45 hoeing potatoes twice 2 ..."

4. British Farmer's Magazine (1868)
"Tn pursuance of my plan to write a new series of papers according to seasons as far аз I can, I take the above subject, wheat-hoeing. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"Of hoeing. When a field is in good tilth, it should he sown so thin as to leave ... The differ- The first hoeing, which should be given before the ..."

6. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"К mi-In ku-lima, the hoeing is over. ... and when they have hoed the weeds away at the second hoeing, then they stop until the grass grows again, ..."

7. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"There are many kinds that will come up and go to seed after the usual time of hoeing is past. And although they may not make much of a show in the crop, ..."

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