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swinked | swinker |

As a verb swinked

is past tense of swink.

As a noun swinker is

a toiler; a labourer.

swinked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swink)

    • swink

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) swink, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) toil, work, drudgery
  • * 1963 , , Inside Mr. Enderby :
    • Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink , ready for Enderby.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) swinken, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Verb

  • (archaic) to labour, to work hard
  • * 14th century ,
    • Heremites on an heep · with hoked staues,
    Wenten to Walsyngham · and here wenches after;
    Grete lobyes and longe · that loth were to swynke,
    Clotheden hem in copis · to be knowen fram othere;
    And shopen hem heremites · here ese to haue.
  • * Spenser
    • for which men swink and sweat incessantly
  • * 1922 , :
    • 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 in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
  • (archaic) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
  • * Milton
    • And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    References

    * http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=swink * http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=swink

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    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)