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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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- (sometimes indifferently enforced), these either closed down or are now eking out a difficult existence. Recently, large horticultural operations have...
- His first five scallops were rejected but his sixth - and last - p****ed, eking out a victory for the men. Reward/punishment: The men flew in a helicopter...
- 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...
- 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...
- suburban woman". He wanted to be a writer but his ambitions were frustrated, "eking out a life of permanent disappointment, writing novels on the kitchen table...
- 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...
- winner would win the group. The game went down to the wire, with Canada eking out a 71–68 win. Canada defeated Brazil in the semifinal, 91–63. In front...
- beings who came to Fantastica earlier but could not find their way out, eking out a meaningless existence there. Ultimately, a repentant Bastian is reduced...
- 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...
- "screamers". Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost, but more important, they discover...