footslog

foot +‎ slog

footslog (plural footslogs)

1. An instance of footslogging.
   • 1998, Richard John Evans, Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century:

     ... 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.

   • 2001, Molly Gloss, Wild Life:

     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, ...

footslog (third-person singular simple present footslogs, present participle footslogging, simple past and past participle footslogged)

1. (intransitive) to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge
   • 1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone:

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

   • 1996, Wilbur A. Smith, The Seventh Scroll:

     The bush is too thick. We will have to footslog up the side.

   • 1998, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen:

     Dick went by train to Voi and then proceeded to footslog across the Serengeti Plains to Taveta.

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