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Definition of Grubbed
1. grub [v] - See also: grub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbed
Literary usage of Grubbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"12 acres pea stubble, twice grubbed, with harrow attached, sown with mustard aud
... 11 acres wheat stubble, twice grubbed, wheat again 22 3. ..."
2. Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific by John Randolph Spears (1892)
"of an industry, for the reason that the brush, being grubbed up by the roots,
does not readily replace itself in the territory from which it was taken. ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"unconnected provision making disposition of : applies to the underbrush too small
to be property. Appeal of Miles, 36 Atl. 39, 41, ¡ grubbed. Holmes v. ..."
4. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"... will send ap strong shoots, which we know by experi- 160 ence to be correct ;
therefore, the roots should not be grubbed up too hastily. ..."
5. General View of the Agriculture in the County of Somerset: With Observations by John Billingsley (1794)
"Whenever underwood is cut, the forts ought to be particularly examined, and fuch
as are unproductive or unprofitable, grubbed up, and other forts planted in ..."
6. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1901)
"Some of the plants found in this first plantation, most of which was grubbed up
this fall, bear fruit of large size, with but little astringency. ..."
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