From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eke \Eke\, adverb [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]
'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.
Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. --M["a]tzner.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eke \Eke\, noun An addition. [R.]
Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), verb (used with an object) [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, verb (used without an object) 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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