Crossword clues for grubber
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"digger," late 13c. as a surname, agent noun from grub (v.). Meaning "one who gets wealth contemptibly" is from 1570s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who grubs. 2 A machine or tool of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc. 3 (context rugby English) (also grubber kick), an attacking short distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve. 4 (context cricket English) A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly
Wikipedia
A grubber was a term sometimes used in Victorian England to describe people who scavenged in drains for a living.
Grubber is also a colloquial name used in New Zealand for a mattock.
Usage examples of "grubber".
Ykx he came across was Fafeyzar of Masliga Gather, a grubber handler on a tekla farm, doing some preplanting plowing.
I can hear them laughing when they force their victims to do this and that like training a grubber to plow.
He wore a harness of grubber hide, old and stained, without even a touch of ornament.
Inside this, a young male Ykx in his late tweens packing for his wingride, a nursling cub crawling about on the floor dragging with her a much chewed rubbery grubber doll.
This takes three to ten days, those things can be heavy enough to give a grubber a hernia.
Each, in the tongue they used to speak to one another, called them The Grubbers, a name they had for ugly creatures that scurried about beneath the ground.
Its stupid land grubbers were complaisant and actually held themselves aloof from any use of the talent: still, they came from a people who had once been possessed in such ability.
In fact, upon occasion he wished that he might suck out all the gifts at once from these land grubbers, make them watch the devastation of everything that made up their lives.
Those sniveling earth grubbers had chosen this fate, or one like it, long ago.
Certainly the apparently mindless service rendered by the land grubbers might have led their overseers to believe there was no reason that their charges need be watched too strictly.
The land grubbers, as he knew only too well from past encounters, hated him nearly as much as they abominated the gobbes.
Until this moment, Fogar had felt as helpless to control his own limbs as one of those bird-begones the land grubbers placed in the fields, whipped into antic dance by autumn winds.
Out near the horizon on her right side, a dustcloud rose where forty-four hitches of grubbers were plowing their horny snouts along, breaking up the earth so the seeders they pulled could drop their load into the furrows.
Each, in the tongue they used to speak to one another, called them The Grubbers, a name they had for ugly creatures that scurried about beneath the ground.
What pushed its nose through into the open was no flamer or grubber, as Ayyar had expected, but something that had no place in this wilderness, as if one of the space ships had fallen over to creep reptile-like across the land.