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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swink .
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Examples
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Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock,
Collected Poems 2003
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For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
The White Company 1890
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Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock320
The Burden of Itys 1881
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Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1877
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The green recruits that trudge and sweat where it had swinked whilere, 50
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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They wished to find a shorter way than that by which they went, and they looked about in hopes of seeing some labourer (some _swinked hedger_) returning from his work, or a cottage where they could meet with a guide.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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