A gardening tool with a flat blade used for cultivating soil and removing weeds; or the action of using this tool.
From Old French 'houe', possibly from Frankish. Related to 'hew', reflecting the tool's function of cutting and chopping through soil and weeds.
The humble hoe represents humanity's first partnership with agriculture - this simple tool helped transform nomadic hunters into settled farmers, making civilization possible through the basic act of breaking soil.
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