Word Meanings - SWINKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A laborer. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to SWINKER)

• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• DAY-LABORER
  One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.