grubbing-hoe

When I am grubbing out willows along the ravine, the grubbing-hoe, a lunch-basket well filled, and a jug of water from the deep well up there under the trees seem to be the sum total of the necessary appliances for a life of usefulness and contentment.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

"You girls tell Henry to come down with the axe and grubbing-hoe," he commanded briskly.

Miss Pat at School Pemberton Ginther

He was doing the hardest work there is on a farm -- digging sprouts with a heavy grubbing-hoe.

Dixie Hart 1888

In the middle of the stony road stood a group of roughly clad mountaineers, each in an attitude of sluggish disinclination to the allotted task of mending the highway, leaning lazily upon a grubbing-hoe or sorry spade, - except, indeed, the overseer, who was upheld by the single crowbar furnished by the county, the only sound implement in use among the party.

In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

To do this properly run them off four or five feet apart with the foot, then open with a narrow grubbing-hoe to the depth of three or four inches.

A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests In North Carolina. Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together with Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; with Statistics Exhibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the Western Counties, and Also in the Other Tobacco Producing Regions of the State, as Shown By Comparison of the Crop of 1880 with Those of Preceding Years John Donald 1881

In the first place I have my ground broken up deeply; then I have the ground covered over with stable manure; have it ploughed in tolerably deep; level the ground with a hoe or rake; hen-house manure is scattered over the ground; hoe it in deep with a grubbing-hoe; level it again; lay off the

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

The ground is then broken up with the grubbing-hoe, an implement something like a pick-axe, only that it is four inches wide, and heavy.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854

It is better to break up the ground with the grubbing-hoe, because it pulverizes the soil more effectually; but it is sometimes done with the plough.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854