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Verb- To weed, cultivate, or thin a crop.

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  • For other work, such as hoeing, weeding, earthing up (see page 21) change the tines of the cultivator.
  • That's the kind of hoeing I want you to do -- please dig me up those teeth for Aunt
  • “light work,” such as hoeing potatoes, cutting weeds from the fence corners, and any other work of like character.
  • De next year dey put me to plowing and him to hoeing.
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