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Word Meanings - PLOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak. 2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

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  • STALKY
    Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
  • MARCHER
    One who marches.
  • LABOR-SAVING
    Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
  • LABORIOUS
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
  • LABORED
    Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
  • LABOR
    The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
  • LABOROUS
    Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
  • DRUDGER
    1. One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging box.
  • LABORATORY
    The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
  • STRIDE
    strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining
  • STALK-EYED
    Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
  • MARCH
    The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
  • STALKLESS
    Having no stalk.
  • TRAMP
    Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp
  • SLAVEOCRACY
    See SLAVOCRACY
  • SLAVEHOLDING
    Holding persons in slavery.
  • TREADBOARD
    See 5
  • MARCHING
    ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
  • STALKER
    1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
  • TREADFOWL
    A cock. Chaucer.
  • NOMARCH
    The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
  • OVERLABOR
    1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
  • COLABORER
    One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
  • UNLABORED
    1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
  • POLEMARCH
    In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
  • OVERSTRIDE
    To stride over or beyond.
  • UNDERLABORER
    An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
  • ENSLAVEMENT
    The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
  • ENSLAVEDNESS
    State of being enslaved.

 

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