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

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 Literature

Hand crews have spent days working 16-hour shifts using chain saws, Pulaskis — part ax, part grub hoe — and other tools to clear miles of manzanita and other brush along roads and highways in preparation for back burning.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg