Hoe n.
 1. A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
 2. Zool. The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
 Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade.
 Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator.