plod

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

   I could recognize their plod anywhere.

2. 2
   verb

   walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

   Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone.

3. 3
   noun

   A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

4. 4
   verb

   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,.

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).

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