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English Dictionary: plod by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plod
n
  1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize his plod anywhere"
    Synonym(s): plodding, plod
v
  1. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
    Synonym(s): slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
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. [bd]Plodding schoolmen.[b8] --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.
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