grubplank (grubplangk)

Refuse plank used in fastening together the parts of a lumber-raft. [U. S.] grub-saw (grub'sa), n. [ IMG:content-2735.png:[blocks in formation] Grutching the English such a ve el, they all joined together, plundered the English of their ship, goods, and arms, and turned them ashore. Dampier, Voyages, an. 1683. Mankind are the wolves that I fear, They grudge me my natural right to be free. Cowper , Scenes Favorable to Meditation (trans.). O who shall grudge him Albuera's bays, Who brought a race regenerate to the field? Scott , Don Roderick, Conclusion, st. 14. 2. To give or permit with reluctance; grant or submit to unwillingly; begrudge. A trew [truce] to be tak on of a tyme short, - Sex moneth & no more, his men for to rest: That the Grekes hym grauntid, grucchet thai noght. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8374. The stable and merc i full earth, which before had opened her mouth to receiue his brothers blood, thinking, and (as it were) grudging to support such wicked feet. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 33. For which cause presbyters must not grudge to continue subject unto their bishops. Hooker, Eccles. Polity (ed. Keble), III. 165. The price I think ye need not grudge . presentiment. Now have I A kind of grudging of a beating on me. Beau. and Fl . , Honest Man's Fortune. grudgingly (gruj'ing-li), adv . In a grudging manner; unwillingly; with reluctance or discontent. Every man, according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly , or of nece ity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Cor. ix. 7.