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Definition of 'eke'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Verb
( ek)
To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
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- Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?
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|passage=British tycoon Richard Branson stole the show here Wednesday, announcing that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space, as Airbus and Boeing eked out more plane orders.
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Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) An addition.
* Geddes
- Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(beekeeping|archaic) A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .
Adverb
( -)
(obsolete) Also.
* 1663 ,
- 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in hall / Round-table like a farthingal, / On which, with shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before, his good knights dined.
* 1782 ,
- 'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'
See also
* eke out
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