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grub hoe

American  

noun

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


grub hoe British  

noun

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

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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

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

I got a brush scythe, a hatchet, a spade, a grub hoe, and a rake, and we went to work.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

This was easily accomplished by chopping out the turf with a grub hoe, and then hitching Dobbin to the drag scraper.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

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