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swinkers

swinkers is the plural of swinker.

Meaning of swinker

Noun

swinker (plural swinkers)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A toiler; a labourer.
    • Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]1845, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium

Questions about swinkers

What is swinkers the plural of?
Swinkers is the plural of swinker.

Words near swinkers in the dictionary

  1. swinishness
  2. swinishnesses
  3. swink
  4. swinked
  5. swinker
  6. swinkers
  7. swinketh
  8. swinking
  9. swinkle
  10. swinks
  11. swinkt

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