scrub gang (skrubgang)

Sailors engaged in cleaning or dre ing down the decks. scrub-gra , scrubby-gra (skrub'grås, skrub'i-grås), n. The scouring-rush. [Prov. Eng.] scrub-oak (skrub'ōk), n. A name of three low American oaks. (a) Quercus Catesbæi of the southeastern United States, a small tree useful chiefly for fuel. Also called Turkey oak and black - jack. (b) Q. undulata, var. Gambellii, of the Rocky Mountain region southward: a tree 40 feet high, often a low shrub spreading by underground shoots and forming dense thickets. (c) The black scrub-oak, Q. ilicifolia, a straggling bush found on sandy barrens from New England to Ken tucky. Also called bear - oak. tucky. scrub-pine (skrub'pin), n. See pinel. scrub-pine (sk scrub-rider (skrubrider), n. One accustomed to ride through the scrub; specifically, a rancher who rides out in search of scrub-cattle. [Australian.] A favourite plan among the bold scrub-riders. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 278.