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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRUB , the larva of an See also:

insect, a See also:caterpillar, maggot. The word is formed from the verb " to grub," to dig, break up the See also:surface of the ground, and clear of stumps, roots, weeds, &c. According to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary, " grub " may be referred w an ablaut variant of the Old See also:Teutonic grab-, to dig, cf. " See also:grave." See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet. 1898) refers it rather to the See also:root seen in " grope," " grab," &c., the See also:original meaning " to See also:search for." The earliest See also:quotation of the See also:slang use of the word in the sense of See also:food in the New English Dictionary is dated 1659 from See also:Ancient Poems, See also:Ballads, &c., See also:Percy Society Publications.

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