different between clodding vs plodding

English

clodding

clodding (plural cloddings)

The act of pelting somebody with clods.
- 1988, Dennis Smith, The County of Kincardine (page 63)
  Stone throwing and cloddings have much in common. The witches openly cast stones. The cloddings took place by the instrumentality of an unseen agent, usually supposed to be in league with Satan.

plodding

plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)

plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)

Slow, laborious progress.
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, Poems, "Honors"
  I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.

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