Be-swincan

根据古英语词典：

be-swincan

Add: I. to labour for :-- Laboratores synd þá þe úrne bigleofan beswincað, Hml. S. 25, 815. Nim þín gold, þe lǽs þe hit þé losige ꝥ þú lange beswunce, 12, 219. II. to labour at, perform with labour :-- Beswanc desudat, An. Ox. 8, 257. Gedafenað esnum þám orpedan, þonne hé gód weorc ongynð, ꝥ hé ꝥ geornlíce beswynce, Angl. viii. 324, 18. II a. to till land :-- Hé seów hwǽte on be-swuncenum lande, Hml. Th. ii. 144, 10. [N. E. D. be-swink.] be-swincan