Plodding: alternatives and connections

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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of Walk

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.

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To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

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