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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move or walk heavily or laboriously; trudge: "donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin” ( D.H. Lawrence).
  2. v. To work or act perseveringly or monotonously; drudge: plodding through a mountain of paperwork.
  3. v. To trudge along or over.
  4. n. The act of moving or walking heavily and slowly.
  5. n. The sound made by a heavy step.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A puddle.
  2. To trudge; travel or work slowly and perseveringly; go on in any pursuit with steady, laborious diligence.
  3. To lag behind or puzzle upon the scent: said of hounds. Synonyms To trudge, jog.
  4. To go or walk over in a heavy, laboring manner; accomplish by heavy, toilsome walking or exertion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
  2. v. intransitive To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
  3. v. transitive To trudge over or through.
  4. n. obsolete A puddle.
  5. n. UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the" the police, police officers
  6. n. UK, mildly derogatory, countable a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
  2. v. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
  3. v. To walk on slowly or heavily.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
  2. v. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Etymologies

  1. From PC Plod (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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