Definition of "grubbed" [grubbed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of grub. (verb)

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• "Apple tree borers are frequently serious, especially in young orchards, where the trees should be regularly "grubbed" and the borers dug out or killed with a piece of wire."
• "When the tobacco growers are ready for preparing their "new ground" they invite in their friends and neighbors, and the field is "grubbed" in a short time."
• "I've "grubbed" at a threepenny hash-house, I've been at a counter-lunch,"