Plodder and Hackney

noun

• Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.
  • synonyms: trudger, slogger
• Someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours.
  • synonyms: slogger
• Someone who moves slowly.
  • usage: "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
  • synonyms: slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach

noun

• A carriage for hire.
  • synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach
• A compact breed of harness horse. .

• (v.t.) To carry in a hackney coach.
• (v.t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
• (n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
• (n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
• (a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
• (n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
• (n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.