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Answer for the clue "Chuck wagon fare ", 4 letters:
grub
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Word definitions for grub in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"larva," early 15c., perhaps from grub (v.) on the notion of "digging insect," or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub "dwarfish fellow" (c.1400). Meaning "dull drudge" is 1650s. The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1650s, said to be from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sneak \Sneak\, n. A mean, sneaking fellow. A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks. --Glanvill. (Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub . [Cant] --R. A. Proctor.
Usage examples of grub.
But the crowders, like their common adapid ancestors, relied heavily on the caterpillars and grubs they snatched from the branches, and they had sharp, narrow teeth to process their insect prey.
I ate a lot of pub grub: bendy sausages, gingerbaked beans, a trough of cottage pie.
By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.
It was no skin off his nose if the average cowhand worked his ass off for just a dollar a day and grub, only to get skimmed by everybody from those check cashers to the barkeeps who jacked up the price of bar liquor on a payday weekend.
When I was little, I picked the grubs off the caulies and cabbages at the back of the garden.
Sonora said, aware that Crick and Sam and Gruber were looking slightly stunned by the turn of conversation.
Therefore the bag of his wife was always filled with goanna tails, with great porcupines and birds and grubs, though the wife herself got the grubs as well as the fern roots.
While their minions grubbed and murdered for gold, the real wealth of the land lay in plain view before them.
They cleared away the gorse and heath and grubbed the fir-tree stumps, and found, after a while, that the apparently barren sand could grow a good sward.
Heavily built creatures with wide faces and massive jaws, the australopithecines had been grubbing for insects and foraging desiccated fruit.
Big grove of royal palms on there then, and grubbing out them palms paid for the work.
Frank Hamilton, was back inland with Uncle Jesse Hamilton and Henry Thompson, grubbing out royal palms on the Johnson Mound, cause times was very hard and getting harder.
We ranges up and down and backward and forward over the main trunk lines and the branches of the victual subject, and Mame leads the game, for she is apprised in the ramifications of grub, and the dishes she nominates aggravates my yearnings.
And no more harmful to the Grub, I would think, than a yearly physical examination.
It was hard to imagine how even the grubs at Noware could expect him to make chainguns and rocket launchers seem sweet and innocent.