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A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF995211).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: when not otherwise specified
Synonyms: hand hoe
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noun
Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang
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Synonyms: abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gillian, gill, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hoe, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, meat puppet, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, puta, put, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thotty, thot, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
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noun
A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
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noun
The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Orkney, Shetland
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verb
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative, slang
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noun
a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tool
Narrower terms: scuffle, scuffle hoe, Dutch hoe
verb
dig with a hoe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: till
History
From Old English hōh (“heel; spur of a hill”).
Two main origins: * A variant of Ho, a Vietnamese surname. * An English habitational surname, from the village in Norfolk.
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.
From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.
Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.
Across languages
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