† grubbler Obs. or arch.
Also 5 groublare, growblar.
[Altered form of grubber.]
= grubber 1.
c 1440 [see grubber 1]. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXII. 283 That which not the parish-clerk, but the conversation of the neighbourhood, might have supplied, is too commonly left to the sagacity of grubblers yet unborn. |