Definition of grub

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Grub (v. i.) 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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Assart :: Assart (v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees..
Grubber :: Grubber (n.) One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc..
Mulligrubs :: Mulligrubs (n.) A griping of the intestines; colic.
Grubworm :: Grubworm (n.) See Grub, n., 1..
Grub :: Grub (n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf..
Grub :: Grub (v. t.) To supply with food.
Grubbla :: Grubbla (v. t. & i.) To feel or grope in the dark.
Grubby :: Grubby (a.) Dirty; unclean.
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
Grubbing :: Grubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gru.
Grub :: Grub (n.) Victuals; food.
Stub :: Stub (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots..
Flagworm :: Flagworm (n.) A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Grub :: Grub (v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.
Mulligrubs :: Mulligrubs (n.) Hence, sullenness; the sulks..
Mattock :: Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax..
Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..
Assart :: Assart (n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest..
Grub :: Grub (n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith..
Grubby :: Grubby (n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
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