Grub

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Victuals; food.

II. Grub ·vt To supply with food.

III. Grub ·noun A short, thick man; a dwarf.

IV. Grub ·vi To Drudge; to do menial work.

V. Grub ·vi To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

VI. Grub ·vt To Dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging;

— followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.

VII. Grub ·noun The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle;

— called also grubworm. ·see ·Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

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