swoe

plural swoes

1. A kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.

   (She told me I must buy a swoe, a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.)

   2007 July 26, Anne Raver, “Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021

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   I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.

   1966, The Rose Annual