arch. [f. SWINK v. + -ING2.] a. That swinks; laboring, toiling. b. Involving toil, laborious, toilsome.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 260. Two maner men habbeð neode uorte eten wel,… swinkinde men, & blod-letene.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xv. Desist from all your swinking painful Labours.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Poems, Message to Iron Foundry (1859), 51. Here, late and early, swinking hands, Fed volumed flames and blazing brands.
1860. Sir T. Martin, Horace, 10. While swinking Vulcan strikes the sparkles fierce and red.
1865. S. Ferguson, Poems, Forging of Anchor, ii. And thick and loud the swinking crowd at every stroke pant ‘ho!’
