Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Hoe (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
(2) - Hoe (v. t.) 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.
(3) - Hoe (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
(4) - Hoe (n.) 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.

(1) - Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.

(1) - Hog (v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
(2) - Hog (v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
(3) - Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
(4) - Hog (n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
(5) - Hog (n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
(6) - Hog (n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
(7) - Hog (n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
(8) - Hog (n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.