especially: a person who proceeds or works slowly, steadily, and unimaginatively
thick-witted, insensitive plodders … unable to follow the transcendental speculations of their opponents —C. W. Shumaker
the plodders who do exactly what they're told —Ethelbert Robinson
2
: a machine for making ribbons or chips of milled soap into cakes by means of a spiral screw that forces the soap into a compression chamber and through a die
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