plodder

noun

1. A person who, or animal that, plods.

   Grave old plodders, gay young friskers […]

   Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,

2. A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.

   That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books

   Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun

3. A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

   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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod + -er.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry plodder (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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