plodding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of plod

adj

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Slow, laborious progress.

   “I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.”

   “Many a game is won by mere steady plodding.”