Eke

Definition of Eke

Pronunciation: ēk

v. t.	1.	To increase; to add to; to augment; - now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. [imp. & p. p. Eked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. - Macaulay.
adv.	1.	In addition; also; likewise. 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. - Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. - Cowper.
n.	1.	An addition. Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. - Geddes.

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