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Plodder

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who plods.

    "Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers […]"

  2. 2
    someone who moves slowly wordnet
  3. 3
    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"

  4. 4
    someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner wordnet

Etymology

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

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