Grubstakes [noun]

Definition of Grubstakes:

capital

Synonyms of Grubstakes:


Opposite/Antonyms of Grubstakes:

Poverty

Debt


Sentence/Example of Grubstakes:

The others would bring enough for a winter grubstake, and would prolong their freedom and their independence just that much.

And the caballos need a grubstake for the winter worse than we do, because they can't eat meat.

On the strength of that I doubles my grubstake, and he no sooner gets his hands on the two sawbucks than he starts for the street.

Half an hour afterward he came to the house with his parfleches, and asked me to put him up a couple of weeks' grubstake.

But that project demanded a substantial grubstake, and other matters of moment were taking his attention at the time.

A job for coffee and cakes, and maybe a grubstake to work a few more lonely rocks.

Missourian chaps, and a couple of Cornishmen, but they went down to Eldorado to work at wages for a grubstake.

He had inveigled other men to share his hopes and labors, to grubstake him while he drove the tunnel that was to cut the vein.

Well, this Wunpost, as they call him, was working on a grubstake for a banker named Judson Eells.

Suppose,” she said at last, “I should sell my mine elsewhere; how much would you take for that grubstake?