A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks.
--Glanvill.
2. (Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; --
called also {grub}. [Cant] --R. A. Proctor.
2. To drudge; to do menial work. --Richardson.
They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
--Hare.
2. To supply with food. [Slang] --Dickens.
Yet your butterfly was a grub. --Shak.
2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Carew.
3. Victuals; food. [Slang] --Halliwell.
{Grub ax} or {axe}, a kind of mattock used in grubbing up
roots, etc.
{Grub breaker}. Same as {Grub hook} (below).
{Grub hoe}, a heavy hoe for grubbing.
{Grub hook}, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps,
breaking roots, etc.
{Grub saw}, a handsaw used for sawing marble.
{Grub Street}, a street in London (now called {Milton
Street}), described by Dr. Johnson as ``much inhabited by
writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary
poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.''
As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production
of, Grub Street.
I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays.
--Gap.