verb
- working hard; laboring strenuously
Usage: archaic
adjective
- characterized by hard work or toil
Usage: archaic
Examples
- The peasants were swinking in the fields from dawn to dusk.
- After swinking all day, he collapsed from exhaustion.
- The swinking laborers deserved better wages for their efforts.
- She spent her youth swinking in her father’s shop.
- The swinking work left little time for leisure.
- Medieval serfs lived lives of constant swinking toil.