verb
- to work hard; to toil or labor
Usage: archaic
noun
- hard work; toil or labor
Usage: archaic
Examples
- The peasants would swink in the fields from dawn to dusk.
- After years of swink, he finally earned enough to buy his own land.
- She grew weary from the endless swink of daily chores.
- The blacksmith’s swink at the forge was both skillful and exhausting.
- They swink without complaint, knowing their labor feeds the village.
- His hands were rough from a lifetime of honest swink.