EKE

eke|eek. Eke, or Eek, v.t. to increase, add, fill up, spin out

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Eke (ēk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] [[AS. ēkan, ȳkan; akin to OFries, āka, OS. �kian, OHG. ouhhōn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, 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.