swink.
Toil, work, drudgery.
Meaning & usage
Toil, work, drudgery.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).
To labour, to work hard
To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English swynken, from Old English swincan (“to labour, work”), from Proto-Germanic *swinkaną (“to swing, bend”). Cognate with Old Norse svinka (“to work”).
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