Plod vs High-tail - What's the difference?

Plod is a related term of high-tail.

is a slow or labored walk or other motion or activity or plod can be (obsolete) a puddle or plod can be the police, police officers.

is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).

From (etyl) *.

(-)

A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .

(plodd)

To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Part One, Chapter 1

** I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

To trudge over or through.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

* Drayton

plodding schoolmen

* (l) * (l) * (English Citations of "plod")

From (etyl) plod. Cognate with (etyl) .

(en noun)

(obsolete) A puddle.

From (PC Plod)

(en-noun)

the police, police officers

(UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

* (the police) see * (police officer) see

High-tail has no English definition. It may be misspelled.