plod Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
    plodding.
    • I could recognize his plod anywhere
  2. verb walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    footslog; tramp; trudge; slog; pad.
    • Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

WordNet

Plod intransitive verb
Etymology
Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Plodded ; present participle & verbal noun Plodding
Definitions
  1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.
  2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.
Plod transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To walk on slowly or heavily.
    The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.

Webster 1913