Definition of Eking. Meaning of Eking. Synonyms of Eking

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Eking. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Eking and, of course, Eking synonyms and on the right images related to the word Eking.

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.

Meaning of Eking from wikipedia

- 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...
- factors allowed the NDP to win 6 more seats than the opposition Liberals, eking out a majority government. This was the last election to return an NDP majority...
- made between 1988 and 1990, contains interviews with five young artists eking out a living in Beijing, subject to state authorized tasks. Shot using a...
- the rain. Among them are the Eynsford-Hills, superficial social climbers eking out a living in "genteel poverty". We first see Mrs Eynsford-Hill and her...
- he did make considerable inroads into their surrounding suburbs, thus eking out narrow wins in Greater Houston and Greater San Antonio, the first time...
- the Unification War, in which their side lost. Six years later, they are eking out an existence on the edges of space in their Firefly-class spaceship...
- Hamburg job for Paris and registered for a course at the Sorbonne, while eking out a living as a tour guide. In 1932, he returned briefly to Torquay, before...
- These survivors are likewise trapped within the labyrinth and are either eking out a miserable existence there or else desperately searching for a means...
- delivering news of another dispatched victim in a breezy tone of voice and eking comic asides out of his character's darkness." Other stage credits have...
- 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...