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Webster 1913 Edition

Swink

Swink

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
[Obs.]
And the
swinked
hedger at his supper sat.
Milton.
2.
To acquire by labor.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
To devour all that others
swink
.
Chaucer.

Swink

,
Noun.
[As.
swinc
, ge
swinc
.]
Labor; toil; drudgery.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Swink

SWINK

,
Verb.
I.
To labor; to toil; to drudge.

SWINK

,
Verb.
T.
To overlabor.

SWINK

,
Noun.
Labor; toil; drudgery.

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