Defn: An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
PLOC
Ploc, n. Etym: [F.] (Naut.)
Defn: A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
PLOCE
Plo"ce, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed." Bailey.
PLOD
Plod, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded; p. pr. & vb. n. Plodding.] Etym:
[Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod
or clods.]
1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.
2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.
PLOD
Plod, v. t.
Defn: To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.