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swink

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5 lettersPronunciation /swɪŋk/Sorted iknswStarts with SEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Toil, work, drudgery.

Word origin

From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).

Used in a sentence

  • Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby.
  • Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck and sweat incessantly
  • And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.

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