The action of clearing or removing.

Digging; the uprooting of stumps of trees, etc.; the clearing of ground of trees, weeds, and the like. Also: the roots grubbed up.

The action of stub, v.1 in various senses.

The uprooting of trees or plants. Also with up. Also in plural (see quot. 1851).

The action or process of converting forest or waste land to arable use by clearing trees, bushes, etc.; an instance of this.

The action of clot, v., in various senses.

The clearing (ground) of trees, etc. Cf. extirpate, v. 1. Obsolete.

The action of clearing land of molehills or moles; the catching or killing of moles.

(See quotations.)

The action or process of clearing land of twitch or couch grass. Cf. twitch, v.2

also figurative.

spec. The clearing (of land) by the removal of wood, old houses, inhabitants, etc.

The action of screef, v.

the cutting down of underscrub.

elliptical for swidden cultivation.