Obs. Forms: 3 swinche, suinch, 4 swinch, swynche, Ayenb. zuynch. [Aphetic f. I-SWINCH. Cf. SWENCH.] Toil, labor.
12[?]. Moral Ode, 369, in O. E. Hom., I. 181. Þer is wele abute grame and reste abuten swinche.
1297. [see SWENCH].
1340. Ayenb., 83. Alle þise þinges makeþ zuete zuyncli zorȝes tyeares and wepinges.
