Meaning & use
hoeing
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Using a hoe to break up soil or remove weeds.
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She spent the morning hoeing the vegetable patch before the heat set in.
The farmhands were hoeing rows of corn along the field's edge.
A note on using this word
Hoeing is the present participle of "hoe," both a garden tool and the verb for working the soil with it.
Words with a similar meaning
weedingtilling
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