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▪ I. ˈswinking, vbl. n. arch.
[f. swink v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb swink; toiling, toil, labour.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 69 Þurh trowþe & þurh swincunge. 1375in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 130/1 He tauȝte hem..How þeȝ myȝte hem frutes gete Wiþ swet & swynkynge sore. c1400Rom. Rose 6703 Whanne her swynkyng is agone, They rede and synge in chirche anone. a1500Erthe upon Erthe xiii. 104 That erthe schuld labour the erthe In trowthe and sore swynkynge. 1906Conan Doyle Sir Nigel xiii, Peter the Plowman grows weary of swinking in the fields.
†2. Deep drinking. Obs.
1590Cobler Canterb. 60 But with swinking at hir will Shee lookt red about the gill.
▪ II. ˈswinking, ppl. a. arch.
[f. swink v. + -ing2.]
a. That swinks; labouring, toiling.
b. Involving toil, laborious, toilsome.
a1225Ancr. R. 260 Two maner men habbeð neode uorte eten wel,..swinkinde men, & blod-letene. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xv, Desist from all your swinking painful Labours. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems, Message to Iron Foundry (1859) 51 Here, late and early, swinking hands, Fed volumed flames and blazing brands. 1860Sir T. Martin Horace 10 While swinking Vulcan strikes the sparkles fierce and red. 1865S. Ferguson Poems, Forging of Anchor ii, And thick and loud the swinking crowd at every stroke pant ‘ho!’ |