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Grub hoe

Grub \Grub\, n.

  1. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

    Yet your butterfly was a grub.
    --Shak.

  2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.]
    --Carew.

  3. Victuals; food. [Slang]
    --Halliwell.

    Grub ax or Grub axe, a kind of mattock used in grubbing up roots, etc.

    Grub breaker. Same as Grub hook (below).

    Grub hoe, a heavy hoe for grubbing.

    Grub hook, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps, breaking roots, etc.

    Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble.

    Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as ``much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.'' As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street.

    I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays.
    --Gap.

Usage examples of "grub hoe".

He found gardening tools in the back seat, a level patch of hardscrabble off the access road to the Hollywood Sign and buried Mickey Cohen's would-be assassin in a plot about 4 by 4 by 4, working with an earth spade and grub hoe.