grub

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

to clear (ground) of the roots. Togrub has long been English for to dig up by the roots. It isAustralian to apply the word not to the tree but to the land.

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 185:

«Employed with others in `grubbing' a piece of new land whichwas heavily timbered.»

1868. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Memory of 1834,' p. 10:

«A bit of land all grubbed and clear'd too.»

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