The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk; p. p. Swonken; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing.] To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
Or swink with his hands and labor.
--Chaucer.
For which men swink and sweat incessantly.
--Spenser.
The swinking crowd at every stroke pant ``Ho.''
--Sir
Samuel
Freguson.
Swink \Swink\, v. t.
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To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
--Milton. -
To acquire by labor. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.To devour all that others swink.
--Chaucer.
Swink \Swink\, n. [As. swinc, geswinc.]
Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. Spenser.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context archaic English) toil, work, drudgery Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context archaic intransitive English) to labour, to work hard 2 (context archaic transitive English) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
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Housing Units (2000): 291
Land area (2000): 0.269292 sq. miles (0.697463 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.269292 sq. miles (0.697463 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75970
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.014739 N, 103.627802 W
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Housing Units (2000): 47
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Total area (2000): 0.161756 sq. miles (0.418946 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71950
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.018441 N, 95.202851 W
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Headwords:
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Usage examples of "swink".
Inside, Swink saw nothing but darkness and wondered briefly if there was another window, or a curtain, or something.
No longer can we compel hinds to swink in our fields as their feudal duty, but must hire these oafs for real money, like any untitled squire.
Here was the fulfilment men plot and swink for: and how different from crude anticipation.
Some asshole in a Volkswagen threw acid or something in his face when Swink pulled him over.
The stairs led to the odd-shaped cupola that marked the top of the old-fashioned hotel and there they found why Tobias Swink, proprietor of the Junction House, had not returned downstairs.
Tobias Swink was lying crumpled in the cupola, very dead from a bullet through his heart.
Her mother, Zofia Swink, my grandmother, babysat me while my mother and father were at work.
My heartfelt gratitude goes to one-time Navarro County Deputy Sheriff Betty Swink and Hollis Swink for their help and constant loving support.
The world had swinked, and looped its wild orbit for uncountable ages, all to produce this latest moment of lucid afternoon: and yet what cause was there for mirth?
Would it be appropriate to say, then, that the body of Our Saviour saw but Our Saviour saw not, swot but swot not, swinked but.
Look far enough, and it means muscular toil, that swinking of the ruder man which supports all the complex structure of our life.
And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix then in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
It was just flat and brown and full of remote little towns with charmless names: Swink, Ordway, Manzanola.
Cnicts sai yai aar leeving nee steen öntornd in yæir straif tu fained yi hwarabouts of yi mising preetjr, hwuuz lösti swink on bihaaf of yi Screlingz haz bimikst him in a fiirs yingli scöfal .
For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.