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EKING
Etymology 1
Noun
eking (plural ekings)
The act or process of adding.
That which is added.
(nautical, obsolete) A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another.
Etymology 2
Verb
eking
present participle of eke
Anagrams
• kinge
Source: Wiktionary
Ek"ing, n. Etym: [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.]
EKE
Eke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked; p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] Etym: [AS. ekan, ykan; akin to OFries, aka, OS. , OHG. ouhhon to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname.]
Definition: 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.
Eke, adv. Etym: [AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. , D. , OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.]
Definition: 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. Mätzner.
Eke, n.
Definition: An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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