Swink
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /swɪŋk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Swink is a noun meaning (archaic) Toil, work, drudgery.
Meaning
(archaic) Toil, work, drudgery.
More Meanings
- (archaic, intransitive) To labour, to work hard
- (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
Example Sentences
And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck and sweat incessantly
Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby.
There was no internal graphite coating; instead a metal shield was used to collect the beam current the swinked electrons which in their prime had caused the screen to fluoresce.
Word Forms
- swinks
- swinking
- swinkt
- swinked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hedger, swindge, wink, swig, tiddleywink, tiddledywink.
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