Terms vs Swinketh - What's the difference?
terms | swinketh |
(archaic) (swink)
(archaic) toil, work, drudgery
* 1963 , , Inside Mr. Enderby :
(archaic) to labour, to work hard
* 14th century ,
* Spenser
* 1922 , :
(archaic) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
* Milton
As a noun terms
is .As a verb swinketh is
(archaic) (swink).swinketh
English
Verb
(head)swink
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) swink, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.
- for which men swink and sweat incessantly
- 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.
- And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.