PLODDING

leaden, plodding

(adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious; “leaden steps”

plodding, plod

(noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; “I could recognize his plod anywhere”

drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork

(noun) hard monotonous routine work

PLOD

slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp

(verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; “Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

plodding

present participle of plod

Adjective

plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)

Progressing slowly and laboriously.

Noun

plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)

Slow, laborious progress.

I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.

Source: Wiktionary

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Plod"ding, a.

Definition: Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.

PLOD

Plod, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded; p. pr. & vb. n. Plodding.] Etym: [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.]

1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.

2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

Plod, v. t.

Definition: To walk on slowly or heavily. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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