footslog

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An instance of footslogging.

   • ... which had resulted in a number of the older and weaker felons being weeded out in view of the prospective rigours of a lengthy footslog to Siberia.
   • My lovely ramble through the bright woods, as I had been fooling myself, gave itself over to the sober truth: became a slippery footslog through the gloom, ...
2. 2

   to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner

   to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge

   • Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.
   • The bush is too thick. We will have to footslog up the side.
   • Dick went by train to Voi and then proceeded to footslog across the Serengeti Plains to Taveta.

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