grub hoe

American  

noun

1. a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.

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grub hoe British  

noun

1. Also called: grubber.  a heavy hoe for grubbing up roots

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Example Sentences

The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Sounder was dead, he hoped no one would come along and see him carrying the grub hoe and shovel across the field to the big jack oak.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

And this little body," the old man went on, "is as strong as a grub hoe.

From Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies by Marks, Jeannette Augustus

First, parched lands of sage; the grub hoe and the mattock clear the way, and then the plow.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer

He stood studying, with the two men watching him, one leaning careless on a grub hoe.

From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph