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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eking \Ek"ing\, n. [From {Eke}, v. t.] (Shipbuilding) a A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. b The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also {eiking}.] 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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