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Definition of Grubbing
1. grub [v] - See also: grub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbing
Literary usage of Grubbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"By itself the acre of clearing and grubbing is not a satisfactory unit for
measuring costs. The thousand ft. board measure is a suitable unit in which to ..."
2. A Field Manual for Railroad Engineers by James C. Nagle (1917)
"Clearing and grubbing.—Having the center line of the road finally located, actual
construction work is begun by first clearing the ..."
3. Railway Estimates, Design, Quantities and Costs by Fred Lavis (1917)
"CHAPTER III CLEARING AND grubbing—EARTHWORKS The specifications covering the ...
The following costs for clearing and grubbing of the railways ..."
4. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"Likewise the method of doing the excavation will very materially effect the cost
of the grubbing, while It does not play any part in the cost of clearing. ..."
5. The New York of the Novelists by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1917)
"CHAPTER V The Big Canons of the Money grubbing Tribe—The Office of Carteret and
Carteret—Wilton Sargent: American —Muldoon, a New York Horse. ..."
6. European Agriculture and Rural Economy. From Personal Observation by Henry Colman (1844)
"SCARIFYING, OR grubbing. What is called, in England, the scarifying or grubbing
of land, is little else than harrowing it with a deeper and stronger ..."
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