plod

Meanings

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

1. To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
2. To trudge over or through.
3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
4. To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

1. A puddle.

1. the police, police officers
2. a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Etymology

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).