1816. The ravages of the grub or cut-worm have been uncommonly ruinous.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 20.
1817–8. No patching after the cut-worm, or brown grub.—Cobbett, ‘Resid. U.S.’ (1822), p. 187. (N.E.D.)
1835. Wickliff was as keen as a cut worm.—‘Col. Crockett’s Tour,’ p. 73 (Phila.).
