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Webster 1913 Edition
Plod
Plod
,Verb.
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.
Plod
,Verb.
T.
To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward
plods
his weary way. Gray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Plod
PLOD
,Verb.
I.
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end, than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
Some stupid, plodding, money-loving wight.
1.
To study heavily with steady diligence.2.
To toil; to drudge.