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swinker

noun

Etymology

From Middle English swinkere, equivalent to swink + -er.

  1. inherited from swinkere

Definitions

  1. A toiler

    A toiler; a labourer.

    • Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]
    • Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still.
    • […] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA