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grubstake ((v.)) 
1a † v. provide with a grubstake.
See also: grubstake ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1897 . . . by mining law, the "angel" receives one-half of all the grub-staked one discovers.
- 1958 For years he and Harper had been grubstaking men to seek out the legendary "Preacher's Creek."
1b v. provide with a grubstake.
See also: grubstake ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1936 Airplane companies have grub-staked trappers, transported them into the heart of the Indian hunting grounds, with adequate supplies of traps and other equipment, picking them up at the end of the season and allowing them twenty-five per cent on the gross value of their fur catch.
1c v. provide with a grubstake.
See also: grubstake ((n.)) (def. 3) stake (off) (def. 2) stake (out) (def. 2)
- 1956 You may outfit him and grubstake him, but being of a race that has to depend for breakfast on the yield of the early-morning fish net, the Indian thinks nothing of eating up his winter grubstake long before he reaches the winter camp.
- 1964 Revillon Frères consistently grub-staked the [Eskimo] trappers who were threatened with famine. . . .
2 v. provide with food and other necessaries.
- 1919 "I'm goin' to grubstake you," he said, "leave you rations for three days; that's more than you'd do for me."
- 1955 I'm several years older than you are, and I've pretty near enough to grub stake myself for the rest of my life.
- 1964 . . . she had departed with her son and his family, whom I had grubstaked for the season's fishing in Andrew Gordon Bay.
3 v. B.C. finance under the grubstake program.
- 1897 . . . by mining law, the "angel" receives one-half of all the grub-staked one discovers.