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Definition of Grub up
1. Verb. Dig up. "Grub up roots and tree stumps"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grub Up
Literary usage of Grub up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Digest of the Law of Restrictions on the Use of Real Property by Claude Perrin Berry (1915)
"Covenant not to grub up trees.—Resetting. 5 256. Not to plow pasture land.—What
land included. § 257. Against land vesting in person of African descent. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... 'to make glades in a wood, to grub up, or clear a ground of bushes, shrubs,
thorns, ... to grub up, occurring an. 1233 (Ducange) ; also spelt ..."
3. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"Useless shrubs are readily cut down, and serve for fuel ; their roots are seldom
difficult to grub up ; a simple and powerful instrument for this purpose is ..."
4. The New Zealand Law Reports by New Zealand Council of Law Reporting, New Zealand Court of Appeal, New Zealand Supreme Court, New Zealand Court of Arbitration, New Zealand Court of Review (1894)
"The plaintiffs claimed - — (a) Possession of the house and land : (b) £403 10s.
compensation for defendant's breach of agreement to grub up the furze, or, ..."
5. The Australian Digest by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1900)
"135 of The Public Works Act, 1894, to cut down, grub up, and remove all gorse,
&c., growing upon the road abutting upon your property up to the middle line ..."
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