[f. TRUDGE v.1]
1. A person who trudges; a trudger.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xxx. Nor would he be a tennis-ball, nor a shuttle-cock, nor a trudge, nor a scullion.
1775. Jekyll, Corr. (1894), 22. Miss would have felt the absence of her fellow-trudge in clambering stiles and scrambling through hedges.
2. An act of trudging; a laborious or wearisome walk; a ‘tramp.’
1835. J. Brown, Lett. (1907), 32. You say nothing of your body and how it fared in your darkness trudge.
1871. L. Stephen, Playgr. Eur., iv. III. 257. We reached the mule track, and a steady trudge along it led us back.
† 3. (Meaning uncertain: ? error for thrutch.)
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 137. One thing said twice (as we say commonly) deserveth a trudge.
