"Dwight Sipler" wrote in message
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Jerry Minasi wrote:
...I think they are called "Shuffle Hoes". I have one and use it all the
time in my garden...



I thought a shuffle hoe [or scuffle hoe] was a flat blade, sharp on both
sides, that you push and pull to weed. The stirrup hoe is also sharp on
both sides, but it's a loop of steel rather than just a flat blade,
althought it's straight on the bottom where it cuts the weeds. The
stirrup is slightly loose so that the angle changes slightly with the
direction of cut. It's called a stirrup hoe because it looks like a
stirrup on a stick.

Stirrup hoe........

http://www.jarvisfrance.freeserve.co...irrup_hoes.htm

and......

http://www.cix.co.uk/~kraal/html/cultivation.html

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