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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of swink English)
Usage examples of "swinking".
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.