plodding

Verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
   • Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
     Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127
3. (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
   • On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
4. (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

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