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footslog en · NOUN

Etymology

From foot + slog.

Meanings

1. An instance of footslogging.
   • My lovely ramble through the bright woods, as I had been fooling myself, gave itself over to the sober truth: became a slippery footslog through the gloom, ... 2001, Molly Gloss, Wild Life:
   • ... which had resulted in a number of the older and weaker felons being weeded out in view of the prospective rigours of a lengthy footslog to Siberia. 1998, Richard John Evans, Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
footslogs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

footslog en · VERB

Etymology

From foot + slog.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge
   • The bush is too thick. We will have to footslog up the side. 1996, Wilbur A. Smith, The Seventh Scroll:
   • Dick went by train to Voi and then proceeded to footslog across the Serengeti Plains to Taveta. 1998, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen:
   • Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain. 1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
footslogged	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
footslogged	Tense=Past		lexicographic
footslogs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
footslogging	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic