6. (cricketers’).—A ball delivered along the ground; a grounder (q.v.);
a daisy-cutter (q.v.). For synonyms, see Lob-sneak.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf. Grub, s.v.
Verb. (old).—1. To take or supply with food. For synonyms, see subs.
sense 1.
1725. New Cant. Dict. Grub, s.v., to eat.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. Grub, s.v., to dine.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xxii., p. 184. I never see such a chap
to eat and drink; never. The red-nosed man warn’t by no means the
sort of person you’d like to grub by contract, but he was nothin’
to the shepherd.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 18 May, p. 3, c. 1. ‘They are not bound to
grub you, don’t you know,’ said Mr. Sleasey, ‘and they try the
starving dodge on you sometimes.’