plodder

noun

Etymology

From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod + -er.

  1. inherited from plodder

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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