ppl. a. arch. (after Milton). [f. SWINK v. + -ED1.] Wearied with toil; overworked.
1634. Milton, Comus, 293. What time the laboured Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink’t hedger at his Supper sate.
1788. Hurdis, Village Curate (1797), 77. The swinkt mower sleeps.
1845. Aird, Old Bachelor, xv. 115. The swinkt labourers of the sweltering day.
1881. E. Arnold, Indian Poetry, 127. The sacristan, Leading his swinkèd ringers down the stairs.
1886. Ch. Q. Rev., XXII. 296. The care-worn mothers, the swinked toilers.
