1.   It can replace the hoe and the shovel as it cultivates around plants, uproots weeds, digs holes and mixes in fertilizers or peat moss.

2.   Thane said National Guardsmen and law-enforcement officials spend weekends uprooting ditch weed.

3.   The bladed wheels of this tool rotate crosswise, creating a scissors-like action that breaks up soil and uproots weeds.

4.   Uprooting the weed is not practical except in small areas of the lawn.

5.   A weeping Nancy Doe left flowers on the tomb after uprooting the weeds that had grown up over it, the paper reported.

6.   The offending weed was uprooted and police said an investigation had been launched into how it sprouted in a city park.