grubber

grub  (grb)

v. grubbed, grub·bing, grubs

v.tr.

1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.

2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.

3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.

v.intr.

1. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.

2.

a. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.

b. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.

n.

1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.

2. A drudge.

3. Slang Food.

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[Middle English grubben, from Old English *grybban; see ghrebh-² in Indo-European roots.]

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grubber n.

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grubber [ˈgrʌbə]

n

1. a person who grubs

2. (Engineering / Tools) another name for grub hoe