| 释义 |
swinked, swinkt, ppl. a. arch. (after Milton).|swɪŋkt, also ˈswɪŋkɪd|
[f. swink v. + -ed1.]
Wearied with toil; overworked.
1634Milton Comus 293 That time the laboured Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink't hedger at his Supper sate. 1788J. Hurdis Village Curate (1797) 77 The swinkt mower sleeps. 1845Aird Old Bachelor xv. 115 The swinkt labourers of the sweltering day. 1881E. Arnold Indian Poetry 127 The sacristan, Leading his swinkèd ringers down the stairs. 1886Ch. Q. Rev. XXII. 296 The care-worn mothers, the swinked toilers. |