† grubblern.
Obsolete or archaic.
= grubber n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] > person conducting
searchera1382
inseerc1438
intracer?a1475
inquisitor?1504
investigator1538
peruser1549
tracer1552
scrutineer1557
examinant1587
revisitor1594
examiner?1608
examinator1612
researcher1615
indagator1620
ferret1629
pryer1674
probator1691
disquisitor1766
grubber1776
prober1777
grubbler1813
detective1850
expiscator1882
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Grubbare in þe erthe, or oþer thynggys (H. grovblare, P. growblar), fossor, confossor, fossatrix.]
1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 72 283 That which not the parish-clerk, but the conversation of the neighbourhood, might have supplied, is too commonly left to the sagacity of grubblers yet unborn.
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