Grube.
pit, excavation (man- or animal-made hole in the ground)
Meaning & usage
pit, excavation (man- or animal-made hole in the ground)
mine
Grubenunglück
Goldgrube
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German gruobe, from Old High German gruoba, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-, whence also German graben (“to dig”). Cognate with Dutch groeve, English groove, Galician groba. Doublet of Groove.
a municipality of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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