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Grubber   Listen
noun
Grubber  n.  One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Grubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a lawyer was not much better than that of Philip as a dentist; but he had his own plans for making a fortune, and hoped to win for himself a larger fortune than is, often made in the law. He was a hunter of genealogies, a grubber-up of forgotten facts, a joiner of broken links, a kind of legal resurrectionist, a digger in the dust and ashes of the past; and he expected in due time to dig up a treasure rich enough to reward the labour and patience of half ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... was a typical money-grubber, turning everything in the way of financial deals to his own favor. He owned a piece of property which Robert Davis finally decided he would buy. After considerable negotiation, a deal was made, Jake reserving the right to move certain small buildings off the property. Jake began, at once, ...
— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry

... again, and I am now at Les Eyzies, in the valley of the Vezere: a paradise of exceptional richness to the scientific bone and flint grubber on account of the very marked predilection shown for it by the men of the Stone Age, polished and unpolished. It is about five in the morning, and the woods along the cliffs are just beginning to catch the pale fire of the rising sun. Just outside my open window are about twenty chickens in ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, but the first puzzled even his friends, until it was interpreted as signifying "Green Mountain Boy." His brother used jocosely to assure me that it really meant "Grubber of ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford



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