45 Verbs to Use for the Word hoe

He dropped the hoe and ran.

And he, too noble to despise the past, Too proud to be ashamed of manhood's toil, Too wise to fancy that a gulf lay wide Betwixt the labouring hand and thinking brain, Or that a workman was no gentleman, Because a workman, clothed himself again In his old garments, took the hoe or spade, Or sowing sheet, or covered in the grain, Smoothing with harrows what the plough had ridged.

The men and women were intermingled; the latter kept pace with the former, wielding their hoes with energy and effect.

This grass is sometimes cut by the inhabitants, who use for the purpose a hoe.

Huckstep advanced within a few steps of him when Harry raised his hoe and told him to stand back.

You will then see the swarthy Dangur, with his favourite child on his shoulder, wending his way back to his hut, followed by his comely wife carrying his hoe, and a tribe of little ones bringing up the rear, each carrying bundles of the indigo stubble which the industrious father has dug up during the early hours of morning.

The negroes had laid down their hoes and rakes; the little tots had placed themselves behind the large, sheltering trees, while the old black women were peeping around the corner of the house.

The slave, seeing no end of his labour, stands over the work, and only throws the hoe to avoid the lash.

On the following morning, as I was handing to each of the hands their hoes from the tool house, I caught Harry's eye.

He looked as if he would not have minded seizing a hoe that very moment.

Wagons, plows, harrows, grubbing hoes, hames, collars, baskets, bridle bits and hoe handles were all made on the farm and from the material which it produced, except the iron.

You are for we minister, and for we only friend; and if you did not advise we to go on work till things settle down, we no lift another hoe.

I cleaned and sharpened my hoe.

As to matings: "While watching the negroes in the field, Mr. X. addressed a girl who was vigorously plying a hoe near us: 'Is that Lucy?Ah, Lucy, what's this I hear about you?'

The day after Tommy went to Mr. Barlow's the clergyman took his two pupils into the garden, and, taking a spade in his own hand, and giving Harry a hoe, they both began to work.

"I know they said it was bad luck to bring a hoe or a ax in the house on your shoulder.

Her mother told him if he put her daughter there in that hole she'd cop him up in pieces wid her hoe.

He was put to work on the farm as soon as he could handle a hoe; but though he labored hard, he had plenty of time and strength left for all manner of roguery.

"My hardware is mostly plows and scrappers and irrigating hoes nowadays," he remarked.

In the spring of the year we was hoein' and when they quit at night they'd leave the hoes in the field, stickin' down in the ground.

I have furnished them with seed and lent them hoes, on condition that they do not work on the Sabbath.

Uncle Wellington pulled a hoe from under the house, and took his way wearily to the potato patch.

Behold me, then, with a full seed-bag suspended before me, buckled both over the shoulders and around the waist, a shiny hoe in my hand (the scepter of my dominion), a comfortable, rested feeling in every muscle of my body, standing at the end of the first long furrow there in my field on Friday morninga whole spring day open before me!

Its culture is very similar to that of the Teazle, with this difference, it requires the hoe at work constantly all the summer months.

If any one would send me a broader, sharper hoe, I'd use it on those ugly weeds and cut more with one blow; but till I got a better hoe, I'd work away with Bobbie's.

45 Verbs to Use for the Word  hoe