For other work, such as hoeing, weeding, earthing up (see page 21) change the tines of the cultivator. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
That's the kind of hoeing I want you to do -- please dig me up those teeth for Aunt. From Wordnik.com. [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference
“light work,” such as hoeing potatoes, cutting weeds from the fence corners, and any other work of like character. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years a Slave]
De next year dey put me to plowing and him to hoeing. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
He accordingly published a work entitled 'Horse-hoeing. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Mebbe av ye tho't ye were hoeing potatoes ye c'ud do betther. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
If she prefers hoeing cabbages to spinning flax, who shall hinder her?. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
There was only one man to be seen, peacefully hoeing his potato-patch. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
The rows for hand culture may be 18 "-30" apart; for loose hoeing, 3 'to. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
If it wants any more hoeing Tom will come around in the morning and do it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
During the day Mr. Griffin's mother worked in the field, hoeing and plowing. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
This is a good plan, as they are frequently needed during hoeing time to "fill in.". From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
There were 75 plow hands alone, excluding those who were required to do the hoeing. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Planting, hoeing, and haying was very hard work for the boys, and very few liked it. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
When the old people returned from hoeing and called their child, there was no child to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
Continent, of growing vines in rows, and hoeing the intervals between these rows from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
One day he stops, along with her, where Boots was hoeing weeds in the gravel, and says, speaking up. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
If all women should prefer hoeing cabbages to spinning flax, or any variety of yarn, who shall hinder them?. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
But clouds came over when the corn was at the first hoeing, and terror and disappointment stormed upon the land. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Mr. Hardee set me to hoeing a patch of corn, and I'm supposed to be back in time to feed the horses before supper. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
After-cultivation may comprise rolling, harrowing (to preserve the fineness of the tilth) and in some districts hoeing. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Even if the cows break into the corn, all hands of us, men and boys and dogs, leave hoeing or haying, and drive them out. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Corn is past its first hoeing; wheat approaches the ear; flax holds up to the light and dew the bowls of its clear blue blooms. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Mr. Day insisted upon Marty's finishing the hoeing of the potatoes, and it took almost a pitched battle to get the boy started. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Every farmer knows the different effect of hoeing, or of cultivating with the horse-hoe or harrow, in a rain storm and in dry weather. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Blythe herself, in a cottage bonnet and long gloves, busily hoeing with little pecks at a raised flower-bed of the size of a tea-tray. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The Coffin people all got some, but about half the people on the Fripp plantations had to go without, having neglected the last hoeing. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
She rose in the dawn to work on her lands, hoeing, digging her orchards, and tending her cattle in company with her coloured labourers. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
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