Eke
Eke (ēk) , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon ēkan, ȳkan; akin to OFries. āka, Old Saxon ōkian, Old High German ouhhōn to add, Icelandic auka to increase, Swedish oka, Danish oge, Gothic aukan, Latin augere, Sanskrit ōjas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Compare 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.
He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds.
Eke , adverb
[Anglo-Saxon eác; akin to OFries. ák, Old Saxon {not transcribed}k, Dutch {not transcribed}ok, Old High German ouh, German auch, Icelandic auk, Swedish och and, Danish og, Gothic auk for, but. Probably from the preceding verb.]
In addition; also; likewise. [Obsolete 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 serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion.
Eke , noun
An addition. [Rare]
Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.