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  4  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swink  \Swink\,  v.  t. 
  1.  To  cause  to  toil  or  drudge;  to  tire  or  exhaust  with  labor. 
  [Obs.] 
 
  And  the  swinked  hedger  at  his  supper  sat.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  acquire  by  labor.  [Obs.]  --Piers  Plowman. 
 
  To  devour  all  that  others  swink.  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swink  \Swink\,  n.  [As.  swinc,  geswinc.] 
  Labor;  toil;  drudgery.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer.  Spenser. 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Swink,  CO  (town,  FIPS  75970) 
  Location:  38.01385  N,  103.62731  W 
  Population  (1990):  584  (258  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water)