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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plod  \Plod\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Plodded};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Plodding}.]  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plod  \Plod\,  v.  t. 
  To  walk  on  slowly  or  heavily. 
 
  The  ploughman  homeward  plods  his  weary  way  --Gray. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plod 
  v  :  walk  heavily,  as  when  weary,  or  through  mud;  "Donkeys  that 
  plodded  wearily  in  a  circle  around  a  gin"  D.H.  Lawrence 
  [syn:  {slog},  {footslog},  {trudge},  {pad}] 




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