Associations to the word «Plodding»

Wiktionary

PLOD, noun. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
PLOD, verb. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
PLOD, verb. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
PLOD, verb. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
PLOD, noun. (obsolete) A puddle.
PLOD, noun. (UK) (mildly derogatory) (uncountable) (usually with "the") the police, police officers
PLOD, noun. (UK) (mildly derogatory) (countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Dictionary definition

PLOD, noun. The act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize his plod anywhere".
PLOD, verb. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats