DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERB 2. to journey toilsomely, to travel (obsolete rare) 3. to drink deeply, to tipple (obsolete) 4. to shrink (American) also SQUINK, SQUYNK, SQUYNKE, SUENK, SUINC, SUINCK, SUINK, SUINKE, SUYNK, SWINC, SWINCAN, SWINCK, SWINCKE, SWINKE, SWINKEN, SWUNK, SWYNK, SWYNKE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Noun: Old English swinc str. (n.) (1) trouble, chastisement, (2) labour, toil (cf. swincfull swinkful, swincléas swinkless, swincliacuc laborious), also ᵹeswinc i-swinch, i-swink, nouns of action to swincan to swink Verb: Old English swincan, pa. tense swanc, swuncon, pa. pple. swuncen, parallel formation to swingan, swing (vb.) c 1000 - (Saxon) Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England; see below from E-NED (for trouble, afliction) From: The Poetical Works of James Thomson, James Beattie,
Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde, 1855 The Castle of Indolence, Canto II. P. 162
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