Definition of Ploddings

1. plodding [n] - See also: plodding

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploddings

plisse
plisses
ploat
ploated
ploating
ploats
ploce
plocytic astrocytoma
plod
plodded
plodder
plodders
plodding
ploddingly
ploddingness
ploddings (current term)
plodge
plodged
plodges
plodgin
plodging
plods
ploidies
ploidize
ploidy
plombage
plombiferous
plong
plongd
plonge

Literary usage of Ploddings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1853)
"... and laying the foundation of an abstruse science;" and yet we know that these daily ploddings are the sources of all knowledge, and often form the basis ..."

2. De Bow's Review by Making of America Project (1858)
"... and laying the foundation of an abstruse science;" and yet we know that these daily ploddings are the sources of all knowledge, and often form the basis ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... when our ploddings are o'er, And then we'll be weary-bon'd miners no more. [The late melancholy accident at the Dykehead Pit, near Larkhall. ..."

4. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"... Will haunt the temple of their Lord; Truth that is neither variable nor hath Shadow of turning, I will find In the wise ploddings of their faithful mind ..."

5. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1853)
"... and laying the foundation of an abstruse science;" and yet we know that these daily ploddings are the sources of all knowledge, and often form the basis ..."

6. De Bow's Review by Making of America Project (1858)
"... and laying the foundation of an abstruse science;" and yet we know that these daily ploddings are the sources of all knowledge, and often form the basis ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... when our ploddings are o'er, And then we'll be weary-bon'd miners no more. [The late melancholy accident at the Dykehead Pit, near Larkhall. ..."

8. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"... Will haunt the temple of their Lord; Truth that is neither variable nor hath Shadow of turning, I will find In the wise ploddings of their faithful mind ..."

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