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Definition of Swink
1. v. i. To labor; to toil; to salve.
2. v. t. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
3. n. Labor; toil; drudgery.
Definition of Swink
1. Noun. (archaic) toil, work, drudgery ¹
2. Verb. (archaic) to labour, to work hard ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swink
1. to toil [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: toil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swink
Literary usage of Swink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches by Joseph Glover Baldwin (1853)
"... and go on as before. At length the judge signed the minutes and took up the
docket: " Special case—Higginbotham vs. swink: Slander. ..."
2. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
"to sons, John, Nathaniel, and Samuel; daughter Rebekah Teste: Wm. Abn'ey, Mathias
swink. 2d May, 1815. Cod.c,l-She is w.dow of Samuel Heizer, deceased. ..."
3. The Quarterly Law Journal by A. B. Guigon (1857)
"The conveyance from Kerns to swink is dated 1st December, 1823, and, ... The deed
to swink was then executed, and he had taken possession before Polly Kerns ..."
4. Notes on Texas Reports: A Chronological Series of Annotations of the by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, 1875- ed, Charles Lawrence Thompson, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1910)
"Ap. 251, reversing where indictment alleged that defendant cut down a fence
in "one thousand and seventy-eight"; swink v. State, 7 Tex. ..."
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