'Eke' definitions:
Definition of 'Eke'
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- Eke \Eke\, n. An addition. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eke'
From: GCIDE
- Eke \Eke\, adv. [AS. e['a]c; akin to OFries. ['a]k, OS. ?k, D. ?ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. --M[aum]tzner. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eke'
From: GCIDE
- Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked ([=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries. [=a]ka, OS. [=o]kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. ["o]ka, Dan. ["o]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. [=o]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. [1913 Webster]
- He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]