GRUB
\ɡɹˈʌb], \ɡɹˈʌb], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈʌ_b]\
Definitions of GRUB
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To supply with food.
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To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
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To drudge; to do menial work.
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A short, thick man; a dwarf.
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To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; - followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
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The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; - called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
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To supply with food.
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To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
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To drudge; to do menial work.
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A short, thick man; a dwarf.
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To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; - followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
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The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; - called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To dig in the dirt: to be occupied meanly.
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To dig or root out of the ground (generally followed by up):-pr.p. grubbing; pa.p. grubbed'.
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The larva of the beetle, moth, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The larva of a moth, beetle, or other insect; a squat man; a dwarf, in contempt.
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To dig; to grope in dirt. To grub up, to dig up by the roots.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A short worm that digs in the earth; a maggot.
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To dig up with the hands or with a small instrument, as roots; to root out of the ground by digging; to work underground, as a grub; to work among, as by digging, generally for an object difficult to be reached.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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