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Definition of Grubbers
1. grubber [n] - See also: grubber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbers
Literary usage of Grubbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Verses by Hilaire Belloc, Joyce Kilmer (1916)
"VERSES TO A LORD WHO, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, SAID THAT THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE
SOUTH AFRICAN ADVENTURE CONFUSED SOLDIERS WITH MONEY-grubbers You thought ..."
2. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1870)
"... which required too slow a motion on the part of the team. struction, we may
mention a large class known as horse-hoes, grubbers, cultivators, trills, ..."
3. The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer (1922)
"(b) PEOPLES WITHOUT A STATE: HUNTSMEN AND grubbers The state is an organization
of the political means. No state, therefore, can come into being until the ..."
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