The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HOE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result HOE
- Gardening tool regularly available in chrome
- Part of Plymouth, miles away from home
- Desire to get rid of power tool
- Ambassador carrying round garden tool
- Tool in pit getting left abandoned
- Weed with no muscle, by all conclusions
- Garden is something to dig — not large
- Sound views from this digger?
- Gardening tool in meadow initially overlooked
- Tool removing a little stone from footwear
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The straight part
We know that "Tool" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tool = hoe.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does HOE mean?
HOE noun- An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
- The horned or piked dogfish.
- To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
- To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
- A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
- Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
- To care, be anxious, long.
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.