Hoe vs. Hose — What's the Difference?

A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.

A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing.

To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.

A flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting

To work with a hoe.

Stockings, socks, and tights (especially in commercial use)

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

Water or spray with a hose

Alternative spelling of ho.

Pl. hose Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.

(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.

(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Pl. hos·es A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.

Alternative spelling of ho.

To water, drench, or wash with a hose

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.

To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm:

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

To exploit, cheat, or defraud.

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.

(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

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

(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

Dig with a hoe;

(transitive) To water or spray with a hose.

(transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.

(transitive) To deliver using a hose.

(transitive) To provide with hose garment

(transitive) To trick or deceive.

To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.

To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)

Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

Water with a hose;