WordNet
grub up
v. of roots and tree stumps, for example [syn: grub out]
Usage examples of "grub up".
It was later, when the kitchen crew brought the evening grub up to the line, that he'd noticed the ball of fuzzy, gray nothingness in his gut.
Or would the cache be left for the discovery of a laborer who came to grub up the brush?
Five times in four weeks he managed to grub up his stake, trot to the flimsy fence, lean against it and get to the door where three times he received a titbit and twice--complaints having been made--a clout on the rump.
If I hadn't decided to grub up the old orchard and turn it into a vegetable garden, none of this would ever have happened.
Awkwardly, he did so, and lumbered around till he managed to grub up the drill.