Hoe Sentence Examples

The telephone rang and she dropped the hoe, racing for the house.

At the house she grabbed the hoe and started for the garden.

She shook the ugly thoughts from her head and straightened, leaning on the hoe as she glanced around the garden.

Among common forms of hoe are the ordinary FIG.

She dropped the hoe and mopped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand.

A hoe or a spade is almost unknown.

They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.

Moreover, the insight into origins, into initial morbid processes revealed by the pathologists, eu Theraa woke more and more the hoe of dealin with the peutics.

Several types of horse-drawn hoe capable of working one or more rows at a time are used among root and grain crops.

The plough, often replaced on the steeper slopes by the hoe, is similar to that depicted in ancient Egyptian drawings, and hand irrigation is usual.

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She hacked at a piece of grass with the hoe.

It is pleasant to think that there is foundation for the familiar story of Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Armada was beating up Channel, and finishing his game before tackling the Spaniards.

He did, indeed, in February 1631 call a meeting of Protestant princes at Leipzig, but in spite of the appeals of the preacher Matthias Hoe von Hohenegg (1580-1645) he contented himself with a formal protest.

The labourers being barefooted, a spade is useless, so a "khodalee" or hoe (much like a very heavy and long-bladed garden Dutch hoe) is used.

Agricultural Tools.The hoe of wood (85) is the main tool from the late prehistoric time, and many have been found of the XVIIIth Dynasty.

With these words he resumed his hoe, and would give no information about the ford.

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop.

Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.

I saw an old man the other day, to my astonishment, making the holes with a hoe for the seventieth time at least, and not for himself to lie down in!

She hacked at the dry earth with her hoe.

The plants are usually cut out with a hoe from 8 to 14 in.

The only time the hoe is used is to thin out the cotton in the row; all the rest of the cultivation is by various forms of ploughs and so-called cultivators.

The hoe and harrow are therefore excellent tools for use in dry weather.

They do not use the plough; nor do they possess buffaloes, bullocks or cows; their only agricultural implement is a long-handled iron hoe.

Haue; the root is seen in "hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from "hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g.

The horse-drawn hoe is steered by means of handles in the rear, but its successful working depends on accurate drilling of the seed, because unless the rows are parallel the roots of the plants are liable to be cut and the foliage injured.

A sharp-pointed planting stick, a wooden shovel, and a bronze-bladed hoe called a coati were the simple implements.

The vineyards are laboured by the broad heart-shaped hoe.

The earth should be drawn up to celery with a hoe preparatory to earthing up with a spade.

The defeat of the " Invincible Armada " in 1588, at which time the crowns of Spain and Portugal were united, gave a fresh stimulus to maritime enterprise in England; and the successful voyage of Cornelius Houtman in East 1596 showed the way round the Cape of Good Hoe lnd,a 59 Y P P Company.

The implements used are two makes of iron-shod wooden ploughs; a large shovel, worked by three or five men, one working the handle, the others jerking the blade by ropes attached to it; a short sharp-pointed hoe, a bamboo rake, and a wooden barrow, all of rude construction.

Hoe's first presses were four-feeders, but as many as ten feeds were supplied, as in the case of the two presses built to replace the Applegath machine for The Times, each of which produced about 2000 impressions from each feed, making a total of 20,000 per hour, printed on one side, or from two machines 20,000 sheets printed on both sides.

These plates were then fixed on the beds of the Hoe type revolving machine, which were adapted to receive them instead of the movable typeformes previously used.

Another machine, somewhat complex but quite complete in itself, is that constructed by Messrs Robert Hoe & Co.

He'll huff and puff and hoe her blouse down!

Hoe for digging weeds This hoe was made by a blacksmith.

I used to use a hoe, now I can use the cow to plow.

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Around a month later will use the inter-row hoe to get the better rooted weeds e.g. vol.

A sharpening stone should always be carried with the chisel hoe.

After planting we use a customized brush hoe with mini ridgers for most of the weeding and then hand weed when necessary.

Then hoed with a short handled hoe Asparagus has been very thorough.

Samphire Hoe is a new piece of England created from 4.9 million cubic meters of chalk marl dug to create the Channel Tunnel.

We then went into the veg patch to weed and hoe and she did some Singapore maths 1A - subtracting across 10.

It has the advantage that it can be operated under moister soil conditions than a tractor steerage hoe.

Hoe or hand pull before flowering, easily uprooted.

Neolithic farmers cleared the wildwood to plant crops, using the hoe, and raise livestock.

Hoe with a tanged disk blade, used in scooping earth into mounds for planting yams (like potatoes ).

The chief implements were a wooden plough of simple and light construction, a hoe or mattock, and a light harrow.

Men like Thomas Murner, for instance, heartily denounced " the great Lutheran fool," but at the same time bitterly attacked monks and priests, and popularized the conception of the simple man with the hoe (Karsthans).

In a world where only one tool is invented, a hoe, there will be no billionaires.

May be the man you hoe with is inclined to race; then, by gorry, your mind must be there; you think of weeds.

When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o'clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day about other affairs.

P. orbiculare is a rare and desirable native Rampion, 1 to 2 feet high, and is best among rock plants, where it would be free from the destructive effects of the hoe and rake.

Another often-overlooked method is to remove unwanted weeds by hand or by hoe.

Removing offensive weeds by hand or using a garden hoe is often the best choice if you have weeds growing near plants, flowers or vegetables you want to keep healthy.

Since you should not hoe or rake around the asparagus plants, the only solution is to pull them by hand.

For larger weeds, using a hoe is a great idea.

Men often performed jig solos back in the early years, and they have gone on to evolve into not only square dance, but tap and hoe downs as well.

Outside of its early jig and hoe down history, there are many forms of country western dancing that still thrive today.

In 'spring the horse and hand hoe must be used, and the previous application of r cwt.

Hoe deeply all transplanted crops, such as cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, &c. Tender vegetables, such as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, sweet potatoes, &c., can be planted out.

So they filled a small boat with the things that he would need the most--an ax, a hoe, a kettle, and some other things.

Incessant labor with my hands, at first, for I had my house to finish and my beans to hoe at the same time, made more study impossible.

When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible entertainment which the country offers.

Hoe with a tanged disk blade, used in scooping earth into mounds for planting yams (like potatoes).

In 1852 he produced "Girls Sewing," "Man Spreading Manure"; 1853, "The Reapers"; 1854, "Church at Greville"; 1855 - the year of the International Exhibition, at which he received a medal of second class - "Peasant Grafting a Tree"; 1857, "The Gleaners"; 1859, "The Angelus," "The Woodcutter and Death"; 1860, "Sheep Shearing"; 1861, "Woman Shearing Sheep," "Woman Feeding Child"; 1862, "Potato Planters," "Winter and the Crows"; 1863, "Man with Hoe," "Woman Carding"; 1864, "Shepherds and Flock, Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields"; 1869, "Knitting Lesson"; 1870, "Buttermaking"; 1871, "November - recollection of Gruchy."