"hoe one's row" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hoes one's row [present, singular, third-person], hoeing one's row [participle, present], hoed one's row [participle, past], hoed one's row [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} hoe one's row (third-person singular simple present hoes one's row, present participle hoeing one's row, simple past and past participle hoed one's row)
  1. (idiomatic) To do one's share of a job. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: do one's bit
    Sense id: en-hoe_one's_row-en-verb-r8Gv1I9U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1857, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, A Discourse […] Delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, June 7, 1857.",
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          "ref": "1911, Hugh Pendexter, The Young Timber-cruisers; or, Fighting the Spruce Pirates, =chapter 2",
          "text": "I ain’t sharing my room with assassins. Gilvey is ignorant and a brute. If you say so I’ll join you and we’ll lick him. We could do it easy, only it wouldn’t help you much. For the men would say I had to help you hoe your row.",
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