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grubber|ˈgrʌbə(r)|
[f. grub v. + -er1.]
1. One who grubs, lit. and fig.; a digger; a searcher among ruins and the like; a laborious worker.
13..St. Erkenwolde 41 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 267 Mony grubber in grete þe grounde for to seche. c1440Promp. Parv. 217/1 Grubbare in þe erthe, or oþer thynggys (H. grovblare, P. growblar), fossor, confossor, fossatrix. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure I. 33 Homespun soon discovered himself to be a grubber in books. 1825Scott Fam. Lett. 17 Sept. (1894) II. xxiii. 346 You are so capital a grubber that I have little doubt you will light upon it sooner or later. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxviii. (1875) 209 The hard-working grubbers in science. 1882F. J. Furnivall E.E. Wills Ded. 9, I, or some grubber of like kind. 1892Daily News 26 May 3/1 It is time to see the grubbers at work. We reach ‘the face’—that is to say, the parts where the hewers and blasters of the rock are at work.
2. An implement for grubbing, breaking up ground, uprooting stumps or weeds, etc.
1598Florio, Arpago..a rake, a harrow, a grubber. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 157 The scarrifier or grubber, for pulverizing the soil. 1848Chambers' Inform. I. 487/2 The common Scotch grubber resembles a strong harrow frame, running upon four wheels and guided like a plough. 1861Times 10 Oct., The bean stubble is broken up by Tennant's grubber and the wheat lightly ploughed in. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Grubber, a tool for rooting—a combination of axe and mattock. 1911Encycl. Brit. VII. 618/2 Cultivator, also called scuffler, scarifier or grubber. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 392/2 Grubber, a heavy type of cultivator in which the teeth are set rigidly in a frame. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 271/2 The aim should be to secure a seed-bed with a rubbly surface and with the fine soil worked to the bottom through frequent use of grubber and harrows.
3. One who gets together wealth by sordid or contemptible methods. Now usually money-grubber. [Cf. Du. grobber money-grubber.]
1578T. White Serm. at Paul's Cross 58 Such grubbers there bee whiche grynde the faces of the poore.
4. a. An eater, a feeder. b. slang. (See quot. 1940.) c. Food.
1838‘P. Pry’ Oddities London Life I. 235 She chucks ony von tater at me, and a bit of meat vot aint of no use to sitch a heavy grubber as I am. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi. (1889) 50, I like to see a fellow an honest grubber at breakfast and dinner. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. III. 9 ‘I'm a heavy grubber, dear boy’, he said, as a polite kind of apology when he had made an end of his meal. 1940M. Marples Publ. School Slang 91 Grubber, tuck⁓shop..tuck-box. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 163 Food in general is referred to as ‘bait’.., ‘grub’, or ‘grubber’.
5. Cricket. = grub n. 5.
1837Bell's Life 15 Oct. 4/1 The Catapulta..was capable of..giving a home toss or a grubber. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 116 Ross..sent down a sulky grubber. 1963Times 23 May 4/1 Constable was undermined by a ‘grubber’.
6. In full grubber kick. In Rugby Football, a forward kick of the ball along the ground. Hence grubber-kick v. intr., to make a grubber kick.
1950Adam (Sydney) Feb. 29 If it wasn't Sullivan's boot winning kicking duels, it was Parkin's grubber-kicks. 1956V. Jenkins Lions Rampant xiii. 199 This time Ulyate put through a grubber kick from fly-half which Cameron failed to gather. 1958N.Z. Listener 18 July 6/4 He tried grubber kicking. All right, if they're going to grubber kick there's only one thing to do. 1960Sunday Times 27 Nov. 20/1 From a set scrum, Lockyer fed Kirkpatrick, going right, and he put a grubber kick between Rogers and D. Bebb. |