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Look up: grub

  1. Grub
    short, fat, worm-like larva, especially of beetles.
    Found on http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/mg/manual/

  2. Grub
    Food. This very old term is still widely used.
    Found on http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss

  3. Grub
    Grub is a term applied to the soft worm-like larvae of various insects.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. Grub
    The larvae of a beetle.
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  5. grub
    [n] - a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects 2. [v] - search about busily
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Grub
    Grub intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Grubbed , present participle & verbal noun Grubbing ] [ Middle English grubbin ., confer English grab , grope .] 1. To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging. 2. To ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/62

  7. Grub
    Grub transitive verb 1. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. « They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.» Hare. 2. To supply with food. [ Slang] Dickens.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/62

  8. Grub
    Grub noun 1. (Zoology) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm . See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle , under Goldsmith . « Yet your butterfly was a grub Shak. 2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. [ Obsolete] Carew. 3. Victuals; food. [ Slang] Halliwell. Grub ax< ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/62

  9. grub
    1. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. 'They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.' (Hare) ... 2. To supply with food. ... 1. <zoology> The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; called also grubworm. ... 2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. ... 3. Victuals; food. Gr ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. grub
    noun a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. Grub
    `Grub` can refer to: * a beetle larva, most commonly of the scarabaeoidea superfamily * a slang term for food * a British word for a headless set screw `Places`: * Grub AR, Grub, canton of Appenzell, Switzerland * Grub am Forst, a town in the district of Coburg in Bavaria, Germany * Grub, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, Germany In `computing`: * GNU GRUB, the GNU project's bootloader software * Grub (s...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub

  12. Grub
    • (n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf. • (n.) Victuals; food. • (v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work. • (n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith. • (v. t.) To supply with food. • (v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by dig...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. grub
    Wormlike larva or maggot of certain insects, particularly in the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera, and the genus Hypoderma.
    Found on

  14. grub
    1. informal terms for a meal
    2. a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

    Found on

  15. grub
    grub: see larva.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09140


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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