WordNet
v. of roots and tree stumps, for example [syn: grub up]
Usage examples of "grub out".
I'll hire Bully Ransden en his team t' grub out the landslip and get the spring t' flowing agin.
Ill hire Bully Ransden en his team t grub out the landslip and get the spring t flowing agin.
The Earth is slowly starvin', and you take the grub out of some feller's mouth who might could help a little.
Kosgro went down on one knee to grub out several of these, cupping them in his hands.
If I had a beam I could use for bracing, I could grub out the boulders holding it up and crawl through!
Yet perhaps those of Grimmerdale did not have such fears and so saw no reason to grub out and burn bare.
He was determined that he would never under any circumstances grub out a living on the surface of a planet.