单词 | grubber |
释义 | grubbern. 1. One who grubs, literal and figurative; a digger; a searcher among ruins and the like; a laborious worker. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digger delverc888 grubbera1400 diggerc1400 graver1483 spitter1648 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > grubbing > one who grubbera1400 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > digger or excavator minera1300 grubbera1400 diggerc1400 spitter1648 groundsman1785 excavator1815 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 a1400 St. Erkenwolde 41 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 267 Mony grubber in grete þe grounde for to seche. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Grubbare in þe erthe, or oþer thynggys (H. grovblare, P. growblar), fossor, confossor, fossatrix. 1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure I. 33 Homespun soon discovered himself to be a grubber in books. 1825 W. Scott Let. 17 Sept. (1935) IX. 223 You are so capital a grubber that I have little doubt you will light upon it sooner or later. 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xxviii. 209 The hard-working grubbers in science. 1882 F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills Ded. 9 I, or some grubber of like kind. 1892 Daily 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool meak1478 pease-meak1583 grubber1598 grub-axe1611 dog1727 pea-make1794 hop-dog1796 eradicator1807 stub-dig1837 stub-hoe1858 grub-hoea1884 grub-hook1884 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A rake, a harrow, a grubber. 1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 157 The scarrifier or grubber, for pulverizing the soil. 1848 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 487/2 The common Scotch grubber resembles a strong harrow frame, running upon four wheels and guided like a plough. 1861 Times 10 Oct. The bean stubble is broken up by Tennant's grubber and the wheat lightly ploughed in. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Grubber, a tool for rooting—a combination of axe and mattock. 1911 Encycl. Brit. VII. 618/2 Cultivator, also called scuffler, scarifier or grubber. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 392/2 Grubber, a heavy type of cultivator in which the teeth are set rigidly in a frame. 1950 N.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. [Compare Dutch grobber money-grubber.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > one who wants or acquires money > specific desirously or avariciously pick-penny1440 scraper1561 grubber1578 coin-cormorant1594 purse-leech1605 purse-emptier1611 pouch-penny1629 purse-sucker1671 gruba1681 money-grub1768 money-grubber1825 scratch-penny1835 get-rich-quicker1914 1578 T. White Serm. Pawles Crosse 3 Nov. 1577 58 Such grubbers there bee whiche grynde the faces of the poore. 4. a. An eater, a feeder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun] > eater eatera1000 repaster1517 feeder1550 moutha1553 dieter1577 trencherman1590 assument1657 eatress1834 grubber1838 pecker1862 nosher1917 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. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 102 I like to see a fellow an honest grubber at breakfast and dinner. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 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. b. slang. (See quot. 1940.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > tuck-box tuck box1934 grubber1940 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > tuck-shop tuck-shop1857 grubber1940 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 91 Grubber, tuck~shop..tuck-box. c. Food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Food in general is referred to as ‘bait’.., ‘grub’, or ‘grubber’. 5. Cricket. = grub n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1837 Bell's Life in London 15 Oct. 4/1 The Catapulta..was capable of..giving a home toss or a grubber. 1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush 116 Ross..sent down a sulky grubber. 1963 Times 23 May 4/1 Constable was undermined by a ‘grubber’. Compounds grubber kick n. Rugby a forward kick of the ball along the ground. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of kick or ball drop1845 drop-kick1857 punt-out1861 free kick1862 poster1862 goal kick1870 dropout1882 touch kick1887 touch-finder1898 fly-kick1906 grubber kick1950 grub-kick1951 tap-kick1960 up and under1960 chip kick1965 Garryowen1965 box kick1972 chip and chase1976 1950 Adam (Sydney) Feb. 29 If it wasn't Sullivan's boot winning kicking duels, it was Parkin's grubber-kicks. 1956 V. Jenkins Lions Rampant xiii. 199 This time Ulyate put through a grubber kick from fly-half which Cameron failed to gather. 1960 Sunday 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. grubber-kick v. (intransitive) to make a grubber kick. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres pack1874 heel1884 scrum1890 goal1900 drop1905 to give (or sell) the (or a) dummy1907 ruck1910 jinka1914 to drop out1917 fly-kick1930 scissor1935 quick-heel1936 short-punt1937 touch-kick1954 grubber-kick1958 peel1960 corner-flag1962 to chip and chase1970 box kick1977 1958 N.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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