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To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Law.] Charles Reade.

To move slowly and heavily.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh.

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

To task too heavily.

To tax or to task too heavily.

To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan.

To walk on slowly or heavily. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.

To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations. [Cant] Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.

One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator. [Cant]

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.

railway. -- Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Wearily; heavily; firmly. [Obs.] In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer.

To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily. To sag to leeward (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel. Totten.

To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]