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v. To supplement with great effort. Used with out: eked out an income by working two jobs.

v. To get with great effort or strain. Used with out: eke a bare existence from farming in an arid area.

v. To make (a supply) last by practicing strict economy. Used with out.

ad. Archaic Also.

ad. Also.

n. A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.

v. To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.

n. An addition.

v. 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.

ad. In addition; also; likewise.

n. An addition.

To increase; enlarge; lengthen; protract; prolong.

To add to; supply what is lacking to; increase, extend, or make barely sufficient by addition: usually followed by out: as, to eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance.

n. Something added to something else.

n. Same as eking, 2.

Also; likewise; in addition.

n. An added structure.

n. In agriculture, an oblong stack.

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