grubbingn.

/ˈɡrʌbɪŋ/

Etymology: < grub v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of grub v.

1. Digging; the uprooting of stumps of trees, etc.; the clearing of ground of trees, weeds, and the like. Also: the roots grubbed up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land

ridding1347

grubbingc1440

stubbing1445

stockingc1460

assart1534

clotting1601

extirpation1607

shrubbing1611

moling1617

averruncation1656

twitching1799

underbrushing1838

clearance1851

screefing1919

reslashing1934

underscrubbing1935

swidden1955

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Grubynge (H. grublyng, P. growblinge), confossio.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xiii. 141 In grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Estirpatione..an extirpation, a rooting out, a grubbing.

1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xvii. §205 By delving, or grubbing, the cunny, or rabbet, maketh burrowes.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Grubbing, a Term used in Agriculture, and signifies the clearing of Ground of Stubs, &c.

1823 W. Faux Memorable Days 320 To root up the small roots is called grubbing, so as to render the land fit for the plough, and the grubbings are to be burnt.

1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 287 The grubbing-up of twenty or thirty acres of wood.

2. figurative. Close search or investigation; plodding work, laborious study.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun]

examininga1325

examinationa1450

examine1494

examen1502

scanning1560

scrutation1593

scrutiny1604

pervestigation1610

microscope1671

introspectiona1676

scan1706

bolting1771

conning1823

grubbing1831

vivisection1880

searchlight1891

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > grubbing

rooting1573

grubbing1831

grouting1961

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull

shoulder-work1715

grubbing1831

grind1851

slog1888

1831 T. Carlyle in Westm. Rev. 15 21 Antiquaries..in their Blackletter stubbing and grubbing.

1838 T. B. Macaulay Sir William Temple in Ess. (1889) 436 No grubbing among old state-papers will ever bring to light any document which will shake these facts.

1849 H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. vi. 308 The indefatigable grubbings and gropings of the literary antiquary.

3. slang. Eating, feeding; concrete food, ‘grub’.

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

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun]

meatshiplOE

eatingc1175

dietingc1400

foodc1450

feedingc1475

manducationa1513

bit1523

comestion1595

repast1598

victitation1598

trencheringa1612

cibation1651

oneration1651

esure1657

grubbing1819

noshinga1941

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 28 What with snoozing, high grubbing, and guzzling like Cloe.

1819 Sporting Mag. 5 125 There's an end of all good grubbing.

1867 W. H. L. Tester Poems 132 They're first rate grubbin for the poor.

†4. Some trick formerly practised among college students. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax > of a particular kind

grubbing1679

apple-pie bed1781

booby trap1846

turnip-ghost1863

whoopee cushion1931

hot foot1934

water bomb1947

Chinese fire drill1980

1679 2nd Reg. Bk. Magd. Coll. Camb. 370 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 483/2 Those sottish and even savage trickes of grubbing, salting, mustarding, and y^e like.

1688 J. Jones Tripos ii, in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Life Swift (1808) 57 His bed-fellow dreams of grubbins all night.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (Cf. the corresp. compounds of grub v.)

grubbing-axe n.

ΚΠ

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 265 Bidens..a deluing toole with two teeth, wherewith y^e earth is opened in such places as the plough cannot pearse: some call it a grubbing axe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Houë fourchuë, a grubbing ax; or forked pickax.

1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 123 Mattock, or Grubbing-axe.

† grubbing-fork n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bisnoire, a grubbing forke, or grubbing axe.

grubbing-hoe n.

ΚΠ

1727 in Maryland Hist. Mag. 18 226 Iron ware..6 Grubbing hoes, 6 weeding hoes.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xi. 192 The best land in the West costs next to nothing, and grubbing hoes but two dollars apiece.

1891 Auckland Star 1 Oct. 1/6 Grubbing and Dutch Hoes.

1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 463 There were several kinds of this implement [sc. the hoe], the hilling, the weeding, and the grubbing.

† grubbing-hook n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 163 When he would rid the ground of some wilde bushes and fruitlesse plants, he laieth at them mainely with his grubbing hooke or mattocke.

grubbing-instrument n.

ΚΠ

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 319 Where the closeness of the Plants to one another will permit us to use only grubbing Instruments.

grubbing-mattock n.

ΚΠ

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Grubbin-mattock, an instrument or tool to grub roots or trees with.

† grubbing-tool n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Roçador A grubbing toole.

C2.

grubbing-iron n. †(a) a kind of chisel or gouge; (b) dialect ‘an iron instrument for grubbing up thistles’ ( Sheffield Gloss. 1888).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > other chisels

grooping-ironc1440

grubbing-ironc1440

grubbling iron1530

ripping-chisel1659

paring chisel1675

ripping-chisel1679

flat chisel1688

burr1794

tan-spud1828

spud1846

dogleg1855

jagger1875

pointer1875

spade-chisel1895

claw-chisel1933

burr-chisel-

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/2 Grubbynge yryn of gravowrys, supra in formowre.

grubbing-machine n. a tool used in gunnery; (also, sense 3) grubbing-hall.

ΚΠ

1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Grubbing hall (Winchester), the hall in which college ‘men’ take their meals.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	grubbing
释义	grubbingn. /ˈɡrʌbɪŋ/ Etymology: < grub v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of grub v. 1. Digging; the uprooting of stumps of trees, etc.; the clearing of ground of trees, weeds, and the like. Also: the roots grubbed up. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land ridding1347 grubbingc1440 stubbing1445 stockingc1460 assart1534 clotting1601 extirpation1607 shrubbing1611 moling1617 averruncation1656 twitching1799 underbrushing1838 clearance1851 screefing1919 reslashing1934 underscrubbing1935 swidden1955 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Grubynge (H. grublyng, P. growblinge), confossio. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xiii. 141 In grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Estirpatione..an extirpation, a rooting out, a grubbing. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xvii. §205 By delving, or grubbing, the cunny, or rabbet, maketh burrowes. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Grubbing, a Term used in Agriculture, and signifies the clearing of Ground of Stubs, &c. 1823 W. Faux Memorable Days 320 To root up the small roots is called grubbing, so as to render the land fit for the plough, and the grubbings are to be burnt. 1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 287 The grubbing-up of twenty or thirty acres of wood. 2. figurative. Close search or investigation; plodding work, laborious study. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] examininga1325 examinationa1450 examine1494 examen1502 scanning1560 scrutation1593 scrutiny1604 pervestigation1610 microscope1671 introspectiona1676 scan1706 bolting1771 conning1823 grubbing1831 vivisection1880 searchlight1891 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > grubbing rooting1573 grubbing1831 grouting1961 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull shoulder-work1715 grubbing1831 grind1851 slog1888 1831 T. Carlyle in Westm. Rev. 15 21 Antiquaries..in their Blackletter stubbing and grubbing. 1838 T. B. Macaulay Sir William Temple in Ess. (1889) 436 No grubbing among old state-papers will ever bring to light any document which will shake these facts. 1849 H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. vi. 308 The indefatigable grubbings and gropings of the literary antiquary. 3. slang. Eating, feeding; concrete food, ‘grub’. 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 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun] meatshiplOE eatingc1175 dietingc1400 foodc1450 feedingc1475 manducationa1513 bit1523 comestion1595 repast1598 victitation1598 trencheringa1612 cibation1651 oneration1651 esure1657 grubbing1819 noshinga1941 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 28 What with snoozing, high grubbing, and guzzling like Cloe. 1819 Sporting Mag. 5 125 There's an end of all good grubbing. 1867 W. H. L. Tester Poems 132 They're first rate grubbin for the poor. †4. Some trick formerly practised among college students. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax > of a particular kind grubbing1679 apple-pie bed1781 booby trap1846 turnip-ghost1863 whoopee cushion1931 hot foot1934 water bomb1947 Chinese fire drill1980 1679 2nd Reg. Bk. Magd. Coll. Camb. 370 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 483/2 Those sottish and even savage trickes of grubbing, salting, mustarding, and y^e like. 1688 J. Jones Tripos ii, in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Life Swift (1808) 57 His bed-fellow dreams of grubbins all night. Compounds C1. General attributive. (Cf. the corresp. compounds of grub v.) grubbing-axe n. ΚΠ 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 265 Bidens..a deluing toole with two teeth, wherewith y^e earth is opened in such places as the plough cannot pearse: some call it a grubbing axe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Houë fourchuë, a grubbing ax; or forked pickax. 1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 123 Mattock, or Grubbing-axe. † grubbing-fork n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bisnoire, a grubbing forke, or grubbing axe. grubbing-hoe n. ΚΠ 1727 in Maryland Hist. Mag. 18 226 Iron ware..6 Grubbing hoes, 6 weeding hoes. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xi. 192 The best land in the West costs next to nothing, and grubbing hoes but two dollars apiece. 1891 Auckland Star 1 Oct. 1/6 Grubbing and Dutch Hoes. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 463 There were several kinds of this implement [sc. the hoe], the hilling, the weeding, and the grubbing. † grubbing-hook n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 163 When he would rid the ground of some wilde bushes and fruitlesse plants, he laieth at them mainely with his grubbing hooke or mattocke. grubbing-instrument n. ΚΠ 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 319 Where the closeness of the Plants to one another will permit us to use only grubbing Instruments. grubbing-mattock n. ΚΠ 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Grubbin-mattock, an instrument or tool to grub roots or trees with. † grubbing-tool n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Roçador A grubbing toole. C2. grubbing-iron n. †(a) a kind of chisel or gouge; (b) dialect ‘an iron instrument for grubbing up thistles’ ( Sheffield Gloss. 1888). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > other chisels grooping-ironc1440 grubbing-ironc1440 grubbling iron1530 ripping-chisel1659 paring chisel1675 ripping-chisel1679 flat chisel1688 burr1794 tan-spud1828 spud1846 dogleg1855 jagger1875 pointer1875 spade-chisel1895 claw-chisel1933 burr-chisel- c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/2 Grubbynge yryn of gravowrys, supra in formowre. grubbing-machine n. a tool used in gunnery; (also, sense 3) grubbing-hall. ΚΠ 1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Grubbing hall (Winchester), the hall in which college ‘men’ take their meals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). grubbingadj. /ˈɡrʌbɪŋ/ Etymology: < grub v. + -ing suffix². That grubs. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > digging or grubbing grubbing1765 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling > steadily or continuously plodding1580 packhorse1593 grubbing1839 1765 C. Smart Phædrus (Bohn) ii. iv. 490 That grubbing Swine Still works the tree to overset. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 149 Poor grubbing devils of authors. 1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 257 The slave, the serf, the grubbing laborer..have been released from..fetters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). > as lemmas grubbing grubbing n.² infestation by grubs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects canker1555 grubbing1844 oyster shell scale1877 aphis-blight1882 big bud1884 blackfly1884 fly-blight1887 scale-blight1898 parasitization1909 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 591 They [the grub larvæ] attack different kinds of corn, especially oats, the effects of grubbing in which are well known to every farmer. extracted from grubn. < n.c1440adj.1765 as lemmas
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grubbingn.

Compounds

grubbingadj.

> as lemmas