plodder

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

plodders

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

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extrudermachine that extrudes extruder

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