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• Hoe

  ·vi To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. II. Hoe ·noun The horned or piked dogfish. ·see <<Dogfish>>....

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• hoe

  See howe. ...

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• Cake

  ·vi To cackle as a goose. II. Cake ·vi To form into a cake, or mass. III. Cake ·noun A thin wafer-...

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• Cake

  Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2...

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• cake, or cakey

  A foolish fellow. ...

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• High-hoe

  ·noun The European green woodpecker or yaffle. ...

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• Prong-hoe

  ·noun A hoe with prongs to break the earth. ...

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• hoe-mother

  , or homer. The basking shark, Squalus maximus. ...

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• hoe-tusk

  ♦ Squalus mustela, smooth hound-fish of the Shetlanders. ...

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• Genoa cake

  ·add. ·- A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant...

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• Mill-cake

  ·noun The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be sub...

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• Press cake

  ·add. ·- A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compr...

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• Rout cake

  ·add. ·- A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties. ...

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• Tough-cake

  ·noun ·see Tough-pitch (b). ...

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• Twelfth-cake

  ·noun An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. ...

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• fat-cake

  n. ridiculous name sometimesapplied to Eucalyptus leucoxylon, F. v. M., according toMaiden (`Useful...

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• johnny-cake

  A cake made of Indian meal mixed with milk or water. A New England Johnny-cake is invariably spread ...

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• haver-cake

  oat-cake. York. ...

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• hopper-cake

  a seed-cake with plums in it, with which the farmers treat their servants when seed-time is finished...

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• spice-cake

  plumb-cake. SPICE-GINGERBREAD does not imply plumbs, but gingerbread that is warm in the mouth. ...

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• cake-ice

  Ice formed in the early part of the season. ...

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• a hard row to hoe

  A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish. Gentlemen, I ...

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