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noun
- (archaic) toil, work, drudgery
- 1963: Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman"s , ready for Enderby. " Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby
verb (swinks, swinking, swank or swonk or swinked or swinkt, swonken or swinked or swinkt)
- (archaic) to labour, to work hard
- 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. " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Old English swinc
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