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To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

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  1. v. i. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
  2. v. i. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
  3. v. t. To walk on slowly or heavily.
  4. n. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
  5. v. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
  6. 1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak. 2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton. To walk on slowly or heavily. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.
  7. To walk on slowly or heavily.The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.
  8. v:100 n the act of walking with a slow heavy gait v walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud