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Definition of Eking

Eking
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.]
Eking
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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- Paul and his twin sons, Joseph and Thomas, live in a derelict farmhouse, eking out what livelihood they can during the day and sheltering from monstrous...
- group of Russian Empire's high society refugees from the Russian Civil War, eking out an existence in Istanbul and Paris in the 1920s. It was entered into...
- season, the team struggled on the road, losing to Boston and New York and eking out a tie against the new Philadelphia Eagles franchise. After that, however...
- and gives a wonderful performance in the match, but falls just short of eking out a win. Afterwards, he learns that there is no match fee, being a charity...
- remained about a quarter of the original 1,000 three-two families at Pomfret, eking out mainly a hand-to-mouth existence. Many members of the unit later helped...
- the rain. Among them are the Eynsford-Hills, superficial social climbers eking out a living in "genteel poverty". First seen are Mrs Eynsford-Hill and...
- as mankind's saviours. Nosh is a tech-savvy pyromaniac and bomb-maker, eking out a living in a s****yard far from the resistance. The resistance despises...
- In 1982 Greenwich Village, Harry Levine is a struggling writer barely eking out a living as a doorman. When he is fired, he visits his friend Jake Manheim...
- slopes, alpine tundra conditions prevail, with gr****es and small plants eking out an existence in a region that enjoys as little as three months without...
- (sometimes indifferently enforced), these either closed down or are now eking out a difficult existence. Recently, large horticultural operations have...