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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grubstake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, the erstwhile elevator boy and rabid proletarian whom Daylight long before had grubstaked to literature for a year.
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Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del
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After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the
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Frequently, she even “grubstaked miners who had no other means of support while they looked for gold in the mountains and was repaid handsomely for her kindness and generosity by those who struck pay dirt.”
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Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.
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Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.
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The correspondents understood that he had been grubstaked before without result.
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To make this clear you must understand that I, on behalf of the company and acting as the company's agent, grubstaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake those claims.
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And, to cap it all, when “Lucky” Richard Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del Nelson, to a prospecting in Mexico.
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After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike.
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