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▪ I. grubbing, vbl. n.1|ˈgrʌbɪŋ|
[f. grub v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb grub.
1. Digging; the uprooting of stumps of trees, etc.; the clearing of ground of trees, weeds, and the like.
c1440Promp. Parv. 217/1 Grubynge (H. grublyng, P. growblinge), confossio. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiii. (1885) 141 In grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves. 1598Florio, Estirpatione..an extirpation, a rooting out, a grubbing. 1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xvii. §205 By delving, or grubbing, the cunny, or rabbet, maketh burrowes. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Grubbing, a Term used in Agriculture, and signifies the clearing of Ground of Stubs, &c. 1861Musgrave By-roads 287 The grubbing-up of twenty or thirty acres of wood.
2. fig. Close search or investigation; plodding work, laborious study.
1831Carlyle in Westm. Rev. XV. 21 Antiquaries..in their Blackletter stubbing and grubbing. 1838Macaulay Ess., Temple (1889) 436 No grubbing among old state-papers will ever bring to light any document which will shake these facts. 1849H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. vi. 308 The indefatigable grubbings and gropings of the literary antiquary.
3. slang. Eating, feeding; concr. food, ‘grub’.
1819Moore Tom Crib (ed. 3) 28 What with snoozing, high grubbing, and guzzling like Cloe. 1819Sporting Mag. V. 125 There's an end of all good grubbing. 1867W. H. L. Tester Poems 132 They're first rate grubbin for the poor.
†4. Some trick formerly practised among college students. Obs.
16792nd Reg. Bk. Magd. Coll. Camb. 370 in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1876) 483/2 Those sottish and even savage trickes of grubbing, salting, mustarding, and y⊇ like. c1720Swift Tripos Wks. 1824 VI. 239 His bedfellow dreams of grubbins all night.
5. attrib. and Comb., as grubbing-axe, † grubbing-fork, grubbing-hoe, † grubbing-hook, grubbing-instrument, grubbing-mattock, † grubbing-tool (cf. the corresp. combs. of grub v.); grubbing-iron, † (a) a kind of chisel or gouge; (b) dial. ‘an iron instrument for grubbing up thistles’ (Sheffield Gloss. 1888); grubbing-machine, a tool used in gunnery; also (sense 3) grubbing-hall.
1585Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 265 Bidens..a deluing toole with two teeth, wherewith y⊇ earth is opened in such places as the plough cannot pearse: some call it a *grubbing axe. 1611Cotgr., Houë fourchuë, a grubbing ax; or forked pickax. 1859R. Thompson Gardener's Assist. 123 Mattock, or Grubbing-axe.
1611Cotgr., Bisnoire, a *grubbing forke, or grubbing axe.
1897Barrière & Leland Dict. Slang, *Grubbing hall (Winchester), the hall in which college ‘men’ take their meals.
1891Auckland Star 1 Oct. 1/6 *Grubbing and Dutch Hoes. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 463 There were several kinds of this implement [sc. the hoe], the hilling, the weeding, and the grubbing.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 163 When he would rid the ground of some wilde bushes and fruitlesse plants, he laieth at them mainely with his *grubbing hooke or mattocke.
1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 319 Where the closeness of the Plants to one another will permit us to use only *grubbing Instruments.
c1440Promp. Parv. 217/2 *Grubbynge yryn of gravowrys, supra in formowre.
1869Lonsdale Gloss., *Grubbin-mattock, an instrument or tool to grub roots or trees with.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Roçador, a *grubbing toole.
▪ II. grubbing, vbl. n.2
see under grub n.
▪ III. grubbing, ppl. a.|ˈgrʌbɪŋ|
[f. grub v. + -ing2.]
That grubs. lit. and fig.
1765C. Smart Phædrus ii. iv. (Bohn) 490 That grubbing Swine Still works the tree to overset. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, Poor grubbing devils of authors. 1882W. B. Weeden Soc. Law Labor 257 The slave, the serf, the grubbing laborer..have been released from..fetters. |