Definition of "wheel-hoe" [wheel-hoe]

• A form of hand-cultivator consisting of a frame mounted on wheels, and carrying one or a number of blades serving as hoes. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "That Saturday he went through the entire garden -- that part already planted -- with either the horse cultivator, or his wheel-hoe."
• "Onions, carrots, and the like, he put in fifteen inches apart, intending to do all the cultivating of those extremely small plants with the wheel-hoe, after they were large enough."
• "Sister and Lem Camp, both, had learned to use the man-weight wheel-hoe, and the fine stuff was thinned and the weeds well cut out."