hoer.html - See: HARD ROW TO HOE or TOUGH ROW TO HOE.

hoer.html - {v. phr.} To make your way in life by your own efforts; get along without help. * /David's father died when he was little, and he has always had to hoe his own row./ Syn.: PADDLE ONE'S OWN CANOE, STAND ON ONE'S OWN FEET.

hoer.html - n. & v.
--n.

a long-handled tool with a thin metal blade, used for weeding etc.

--v.

(hoes, hoed, hoeing)
1 tr. weed (crops); loosen (earth); dig up or cut down with a hoe.
2 intr. use a hoe.

hoe-cake US a coarse cake of maize flour orig. baked on the blade of a hoe. hoe in Austral. & NZ sl. eat eagerly. hoe into Austral. & NZ sl. attack (food, a person, a task).

hoer n. [ME howe f. OF houe f. Gmc]

hoer.html - n.
US a lively dance or dance-party.

hoer.html - See: PLAY THE DEVIL WITH or PLAY HOB WITH.

hoer.html - See: HARD ROW TO HOE or TOUGH ROW TO HOE.