A negro dance.
1855. The revellers set to sprawling through various rude, high-legged reels and ‘hoe-downs.’—Knick. Mag., xlvi. 227 (Sept.).
1856. Grind off his impressions exactly on the slapslippery system of the last fast gyrascuting hoe-down Hyperion invention.—Id., xlviii. 405 (Oct.).
1885. [The negroes] danced their vigorous hoe-downs.—Library Magazine, N.Y., July 1. (N.E.D.)
