VERB
- supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits
NOUN
- funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits
How To Use grubstake In A Sentence
- 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 CHAPTER IV
- After all, how different is the $5 million in first-round venture capital financing for a cyber start-up from the silver prospector's grubstake?
- The correspondents understood that he had been grubstaked before without result. The Snowshoe Trail
- With a grubstake from his father, he went to work.
- Let it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where The Frontier in American History
- 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. The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
- She has, however, provisioned each egg with a grubstake: a substantial amount of nourishing yolk, which, soon after the egg hatches, is safely enclosed in the baby's gut.
- With a proper vehicle and a grubstake of running money, Quentin might even be able to make it into the interior of Mexico. KISS OF THE BEES
- We grubstaked them and we were to see to getting the stuff out.
- The loan, known as a grubstake, entitled Bernard to a hefty share of the gold. Gazette.com :
