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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swink v. i. [imp. Swank Swonk p. p. Swonken p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.]  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.