grubbing
Uprooting with effort
Grubbing is digging or rooting around, often in dirt or through clutter: grubbing in the garden for potatoes, grubbing through old boxes in the attic.
It suggests unglamorous, hands-dirty work.
Extended to seeking something eagerly or desperately, especially money: grubbing for donations, grubbing for every last dollar.
Searching by moving things
- rooting aroundSearching by moving things
- huntingPursuing wild game
- siftingSeparating by particle size
- ferretingSearching out tenaciously
poking around · scrounging · scrabbling · rifling · delving · combing through · turning over · ransacking
Small fleshy fruits
- nutsSeeds in shells
- mushroomsSpore-bearing fruiting bodies
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- edibleSafe to consume
wildcrafting · gathering · herbs · insects · larvae · hunter-gatherer · subsistence · survival
Extracting from the earth
- clearingTreeless space in forest
- stumpsCut tree bases
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
mattock · spade · trowel · soil · earth · excavation · tillage · groundwork
rummaging
Searching by moving things
- rooting aroundSearching by moving things
- huntingPursuing wild game
- siftingSeparating by particle size
ferreting · poking around · scrounging · scrabbling · rifling · delving · combing through · turning over · ransacking
berries
Small fleshy fruits
edible · wildcrafting · gathering · herbs · insects · larvae · hunter-gatherer · subsistence · survival · sustenance
uprooting
Extracting from the earth
hoe · mattock · spade · trowel · soil · earth · excavation · tillage · groundwork · weeding
toiling
Working strenuously, exhaustingly
plodding · sweating · straining · menial · dirty work · hard work · tedious · unglamorous · effort · struggle
scarfing
Eating very quickly
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
- gorgingEating greedily, excessively
- devouringEating greedily and quickly
stuffing · chowing · munching · snacking · pigging out · feasting · gobbling · noshing · binging · slang
- excavationdig, excavation, excavating, excavator, digging
- earthworkdigging, excavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling
- land clearingbulldozer, clear cutting, chainsaw, clear-cutting, brush cutter
- weed controlweed killer, herbicide, weeding, hand weeding, herbicides
- siteworkclearing, excavation, earthmoving, earth moving, dirt work
- feedingfeeding times, feeding station, scheduled feeding, demand feeding, meal time
grubbingplanting
Placing seeds in earth
seeding · cultivating · sowing · reforesting · afforestation
- grade grubbingPestering for better marks