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Labourer vs Swinker - What's the difference?

labourer | swinker |

As nouns the difference between labourer and swinker

is that labourer is standard spelling of from=British spelling|lang=en while swinker is a toiler; a labourer.

labourer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *, chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer .}} British English forms ----

    swinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toiler; a labourer.
  • *1845 , Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium :
    • Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field One to prolong, the other to expand, My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, To the destroying angel's flaming wand, [...]
  • *1891 , Harper's magazine - Volume 83 - Page 786:
    • Tosspots and swinkers' were they then; tosspots and ' swinkers are they still.
  • *2010 , Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries :
    • [...] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers ," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.
    (Chaucer)

    Related terms

    * (l) (Webster 1913)