EKE, verb transitive [Latin augeo.] 1. To increase; to enlarge; as, to eke a store of provisions. 2. To add to; to supply what is wanted; to enlarge by addition; sometimes with out; as, to eke or eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance. 3. To lengthen; to prolong; as, to eke out the time. EKE, adverb [Latin ac, and also.] Also, likewise; in addition. 'Twill be prodigious hard to prove, That this is eke the throne of love. [This word is nearly obsolete, being used only in poetry of the familiar and ludicrous kind.]
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