grub

(grŭb)

1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.
2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.
3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.

1. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.
2. a. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.
   b. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.

1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
2. A drudge.
3. Slang Food.

Related Forms:

• grubˈber noun