Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eked"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Eking}.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries, [=a]ka, OS.
?kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw.
["o]ka, Dan. ["o]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. ``To eke my
pain.'' --Spenser.
He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
pounds. --Macaulay.
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