plodder
nounEtymology
From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod + -er.
- inherited from plodder
Definitions
A person who, or animal that, plods.
- Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers […]
- Mules and horses were individually plodders, or ‘flash,’ or rogues.
A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result
A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
- Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books
A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into…
A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- From the mill the soap passes into the hopper of the plodder. This machine feeds it automatically into a compartment where it is subjected to an enormous pressure, forming it again into a compact mass.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for plodder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA