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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swink  \Swink\,  v.  i.  [imp.  {Swank},  {Swonk};  p.  p.  {Swonken};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Swinking}.]  [AS.  swincan  akin  to  swingan.  See 
  {Swing}.] 
  To  labor;  to  toil;  to  salve.  [Obs.  or  Archaic] 
 
  Or  swink  with  his  hands  and  labor.  --Chaucer. 
 
  For  which  men  swink  and  sweat  incessantly.  --Spenser. 
 
  The  swinking  crowd  at  every  stroke  pant  ``Ho.''  --Sir 
  Samuel 
  Freguson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  swank 
  adj  :  imposingly  fashionable  and  elegant;  "a  swank  apartment" 
  [syn:  {swanky}] 
  n  :  elegance  by  virtue  of  being  fashionable  [syn:  {chic},  {chicness}, 
  {modishness},  {smartness},  {stylishness}] 
  v  :  display  proudly  [syn:  {flaunt},  {flash},  {show  off}]




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