An instrument employed in agriculture in breaking-up earth, and drawing it around plants. It consists of a broad blade of iron or steel, with an eye or socket in the middle of its upper side, through which a handle is put. Garden and field-hoes are generally about three inches deep in the blade, and from one inch to ten inches in length; but there is a much larger kind, made of various forms, equal in dimensions to ordinary spades and shovels, which are manufactured in this country for colonial use, chiefly for the cultivation of the sugar-cane. The demand for these articles, not only for the British settlements but for most other parts of the world, is so extensive as to constitute a considerable manufacture at Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, and other places.