footslog

plural footslogs

1. An instance of footslogging.

   ... 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

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   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

present singular third person footslogs · participle present footslogging · participle past footslogged · past footslogged

1. intransitiveto 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

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   Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.

   1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone

   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