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grub
v. dig; uproot; clear out (weeds, roots, etc.); search for; supply with food (Slang)
 
n. food, cheap meal (Slang); larva of some insects; slob, slovenly person; person who performs dull monotonous work


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Grub
Grub can refer to:a beetle larva, most commonly of the scarabaeoidea superfamilya slang term for fooda British word for a headless set screwPlaces:Grub AR, Grub, canton of Appenzell, SwitzerlandGrub am Forst, a town in the district of Coburg in Bavaria, GermanyGrub, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, GermanyIn computing:GNU GRUB, the GNU project's bootloader softwareGrub (search engine) is a distributed search crawler platformIn Yahoo email group management terminology, a "grub" sometimes means a Yahoo email group that was formerly a club [1].
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GNU GRUB
GNU GRUB ("GRUB" for short) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification, which allows a user to have several different operating systems on their computer at once, and to choose which one to run when the computer starts. GRUB can be used to select from different kernel images available on a particular operating system's partitions, as well as to pass boot-time parameters to such kernels.
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grub
Noun
1. informal terms for a meal
(synonym) chow, chuck, eats
(hypernym) fare
2. a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
(hypernym) larva
(hyponym) maggot
Verb
1. ask for and get free; be a parasite
(synonym) mooch, bum, cadge, sponge
(hypernym) obtain
(hyponym) freeload
2. search about busily
(hypernym) search, seek, look for


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graben
v. burrow, dig a hole or tunnel, dig, ditch, grub, excavate

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Grub
(v. t.)
To supply with food.
  
 
(v. t.)
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
  
 
(v. i.)
To drudge; to do menial work.
  
 
(v. i.)
To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
  
 
(n.)
Victuals; food.
  
 
(n.)
The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
  
 
(n.)
A short, thick man; a dwarf.
  

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