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.-the horned or piked dogfish. see dogfish.-to cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.-to use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.