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

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

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

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

From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph