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grubstake
noun as in capital
Example Sentences
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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