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a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

dig with a hoe

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I also own one of these rough hoes, but I do use mine -- only for mixing concrete, a job for which this hoe is ideally suited.
The lower end of each seed tube terminates in a hoe, shoe or disc-type furrow opener that makes a furrow in the soil into which the seeds are dropped.
Seven years later his brother Peter Hoe was murdered in Eston.
'We forecast that this year, the fisheries industry's total export value will reach around $10 billion, growing 10 to 15 per cent year-on-year,' Hoe said.
So far we have held five design workshops, and farmers have tested prototype jab planters, long-handled weeders, and a wheel hoe. The outcome has been tremendous excitement and buy-in from farmers and metal workers.
Keong Yew and Keong Hoe claimed that the will was executed under 'suspicious circumstances' and want the courts to invalidate it, insisting that the will was executed without their late father's knowledge because of the advanced stage of his illness.
PST produced demonstration arrays of this type, and was by then working with dual-face PV cells, using the HOE to deliver light to both sides of a cell, a distinct improvement on standard arrays which could only deliver light to the sun-facing side of the cell.
It crashed into a tree on the central reservation before returning to its correct side of the road and then turned down a track towards a farm shop where it drove at speed into a metal fence When the relatives pursuing him pulled their car up behind it Hoe drove into the vehicle before jumping out and running off with the laptop and a jacket.
Where plants are arranged randomly, it's difficult to quickly weed with a hoe because constant sideways movement of the hoe is needed rather than simply pulling or pushing it in a straight line.
Atkins has acquired Houston Offshore Engineering (HOE), an oil and gas offshore engineering business based in Houston, Texas, for $73mn.
Author Alan Hoe has filled this void with his excellent biography of Meadows appropriately entitled, The Quiet Professional.
Die wereld is vol boeke en handleidings oor hoe om te skryf, en dwarsoor dieselfde wereld het skryfskole, slypskole en grade in skeppende skryfwerk in hulle duisendes opgeduik.
KABOOM: Fireworks light up Plymouth Hoe Fairground rides and refreshment stalls on the Hoe will open at 2pm with live music and entertainment happening from 6.30pm.
Annual weeds such as groundsel, bittercress and chickweed can be halted if you cut off their tops with a hoe before they seed.
Experiment was laid out in RCBD with five weed management strategies: hand weeding, hoeing with kasula, inter-row cultivation with tine cultivator, inter-row cultivation with spike hoe and chemical control with Nominee 100 SC along with control (no weeding).