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Middle English
Noun
swinkere (plural swinkeres)
- laborer; toiler
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
With him ther was a plowman, was his brother, / That hadde ylad of donge ful many a fother. / A trewe swinkere and a good was he, / Livinge in pees and a parfit charitee. […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)