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grubbing

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grubbing [′grəb·iŋ]
(civil engineering)
Clearing stumps and roots.
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Here are you, with your way to make in the world, with your foot scarcely upon the bottom rung of the ladder, grubbing along on a few bob a week, and you choose to go and chuck away every chance you ever might have for a moment's folly.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Lord, it will be pathetically funny to see him grubbing and groping after that woman that don't exist, and the right person sitting under his very nose all the time
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
True, I met plenty of people, grubbing in little miserable fields that would not keep a cat, or herding little kine about the bigness of asses.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
 
 
 
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