swink
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Is swink a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of swink?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) toil, work, drudgeryExamples: "Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby."archaiccountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (archaic, intransitive) To labour, to work hardExamples: "Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck 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."archaicintransitive
2. (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.Examples: "And the swinked hedger at his supper sat."; "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."archaictransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary