"sank work" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from the Old French sanc (“blood”), in allusion either to combat or to soldiers' red coats.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "sank work"
      },
      "expansion": "sank work (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Burnett, Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990, page 84:",
          "text": "[…] even some of the 'honourable' men were reduced to this sweated 'sank work' for as little as 4s. to 6s. a week.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Darlene A. Cypser, The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part II: On Stage, page 48:",
          "text": "Many master tailors keep more hands than they have employment for, especially in the slack. But no work means no pay. Some of those journeymen can't pay their bills and take home 'sank work' of custom-house and post clothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Work done by tailors on soldiers' clothes."
      ],
      "id": "en-sank_work-en-noun-3CnooTps",
      "links": [
        [
          "tailor",
          "tailor"
        ],
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) Work done by tailors on soldiers' clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sank work"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from the Old French sanc (“blood”), in allusion either to combat or to soldiers' red coats.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "sank work"
      },
      "expansion": "sank work (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Burnett, Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990, page 84:",
          "text": "[…] even some of the 'honourable' men were reduced to this sweated 'sank work' for as little as 4s. to 6s. a week.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Darlene A. Cypser, The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part II: On Stage, page 48:",
          "text": "Many master tailors keep more hands than they have employment for, especially in the slack. But no work means no pay. Some of those journeymen can't pay their bills and take home 'sank work' of custom-house and post clothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Work done by tailors on soldiers' clothes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tailor",
          "tailor"
        ],
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) Work done by tailors on soldiers' clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sank work"
}