资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Grub \Grub\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle;
-- called also grubworm. See Illust. of {Goldsmith
beetle}, under {Goldsmith}.
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.