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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Eke \Eke\ ([emac]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eking}.] [AS. [c7]kan, [df]kan; akin to OFries, [be]ka, OS. [?]kian, OHG. ouhh[d3]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. [94]ka, Dan. [94]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. [?]jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. {Augment}, {Nickname}.] 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. [bd]To eke my pain.[b8] --Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. --Macaulay. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Eking \Ek"ing\, n. [From {Eke}, v. t.] (Shipbuilding) (a) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. (b) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also {eiking}.] | |
