Eke /(ēk)/

Eke

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Eked; p. pr. & vb. n. Eking

  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.
    He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds.

Eke

adv.
  1. In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]
    'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love.
    A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town.

Eke

n.
  1. An addition. [R.]
    Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.