plodder

noun

plod·​der

-ädə(r)

plural -s

1

: one that plods

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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