Hoe
A long-handled tool for working soil between rows — the patient garden work of keeping the ground open.
A hoe in a dream is the dream's image of the patient garden work of keeping the ground open. The hoe does not plant and does not harvest; the hoe goes back and forth between the rows, breaking the crust and cutting the small weeds before they become trouble. The dream brings the hoe when something in your life — a household, a relationship, a body of long work — is currently being maintained by the unglamorous between-rows work that keeps the conditions right. A hoe used a little every morning is the dream affirming the kept ground. A hoe left in the shed for a month, the rows now choked with what would have been easy to cut at one inch tall, is the dream noting that the small daily tending was let go, and the recovery is going to take more than a return to the daily work.