plod

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

2. verb To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
3. verb To trudge over or through.
4. verb To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

   On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.

5. verb To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
6. noun A puddle.
7. noun the police, police officers
8. noun a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Similar words

slog trudge footslog pad drudge crawl traipsing traipse drag pootle

Often followed by

along on through of up and in the to

Word family

plodded plodder plodders plodding ploddingly plods