Plodder

Definitions

1. One who plods.
2. A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
3. A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

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Examples

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

“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”

“1899, Pansy (pseudonym of Isabella Macdonald Alden), Three People, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 21, p. 271, What an indefatigable plodder you are to get⟳ those papers ready so soon, and an unmerciful man besides to make⟳ me go over them to-night.”

“Throughout my life […] I have⟳ been fortified in the conclusion that it is much more important for a young man to be a worker, even though not brilliant, than to be brilliant and not a worker. As one looks back at some companions who attended lectures, and follows the records of their lives, one is strengthened in this belief because the facts show⟳ that the steady plodders have⟳ gone further than have⟳ some of those brilliant lads of other days.”

“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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