Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To toil excessively; labor hard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To labor excessively.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive, obsolete To toil excessively; work or labour hard.

Etymologies

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From Middle English toswinken, equivalent to to- +‎ swink.

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