The word "hoe" can be used in written English
It is used as either a noun or a verb. As a noun, it can refer to a tool used in gardening or farming for digging, loosening, or aerating soil. For example, "I need to buy a new hoe for my garden." It can also be used as a verb to describe the act of using the tool, typically to get rid of weeds, for example, "I hoe the soil every weekend to keep the weeds away." The word can also be used as slang to refer to a promiscuous person, typically a woman. This usage is considered derogatory and should be avoided.
Someone who likes to hoe, hoe, hoe!
Furthermore, Labour's devolution proposals address the biggest reason for discontent in both countries: that for 18 years they returned large Labour majorities in general election after general election, but nonetheless ended up being governed by Conservative politicians.This state of affairs should have provided fertile ground for the nationalist parties to hoe.
That would have been enough for a boy who was born dirt-poor, fatherless from the age of two, who learned to hoe the family's small potato field almost before he could walk.
This idyllic picture has helped to give birth to a new type of American hobo: young, often well-educated but not poor, not in need of work, unlikely to carry a hoe, and only a phone call away from anxious, supportive parents.
Minor-party candidates are often kept out of debates, and they have even been denied access to lists of registered voters.There are no constitutional barriers to a multi-party system, and third parties have not always had such a hard row to hoe.
Ever since, Mr Hun Sen has seemed to be trying to hoe away its traces, like so many weeds.
But in countries like Rwanda, Botswana, Madagascar or Kenya, whose people are predominantly descended from hoe-users, women are far more likely to be in the labour force than those in historically plough-using places like India, Syria or Egypt.This alone does not prove the Boserup hypothesis.
Women descended from plough-users are less likely to work outside the home, to be elected to parliament or to run businesses than their counterparts in countries at similar levels of development who happen to be descended from hoe-users.
Hoe-downs from the hayseed ballets, "Rodeo" and "Billy the Kid", bring the homely rhythms and naive tunes of the plains-country into the concert hall and opera house.
They often encourage dress codes like "slag and drag" or "CEOs and corporate hoes", which perpetuate the subordinate status of women and the dominant role of men in society.
In parts of the Brazilian Amazon, where smallholders' farming techniques are still very basic, a local environmental group has helped reduce forest loss in one community by getting farmers to adopt a few simple improvements, such as planting their crops in rows rather than scattering seeds, and using hoes for weeding.
