eke
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
eke (plural ekes)
- (obsolete, except, Britain, dialectal) An addition.
- (beekeeping, archaic) A small stand#Noun|stand on which a beehive is place#Verb|placed.
eke (ekes, present participle eking; past and past participle eked)
- (transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase#Verb|increase; to lengthen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book I, canto V, stanza 42, page 72 ↗:
- Is not enough, that thruſt from heauen dew / Here endleſſe penaunce for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeaunce new / Thou biddeſt me to eeke?
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, “Continuation of the Same Subject [Of Peasant Proprietors]”, in Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 948263597 ↗, book II (Distribution), § 4, page 338 ↗:
- A majority of the properties are so small as not to afford a subsistence to the proprietors, of whom, according to some computations, as many as three millions are obliged to eke out their means of support either by working for hire, or by taking additional land, generally on metayer tenure.
- 1934, Robert Graves, chapter I, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, OCLC 441429562 ↗, page 3 ↗:
- [I]t is indeed Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no mere secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.
Conjugation of eke
| infinitive | (to) eke | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | eke | eked | |
| 2nd-person singular | * eke, ekest* | eked, ekedst* | |
| 3rd-person singular | ekes, eketh* | eked#English|eked | |
| plural | eke | ||
| subjunctive | eke | ||
| imperative | eke | — | |
| participle> participles | eking | eked | |
| * Archaic or obsolete. | |||
- Russian: добавля́ть
- Spanish: auger, (please verify) augir, incrementar
eke (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Also; in addition to.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: Printed by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, OCLC 890163163 ↗; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: At the University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346 ↗, canto I, page 12 ↗:
- 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in Hall / Round Table like a farthingale#English|Farthingal, / On which, with Shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before his good Knights dined.
- 1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. […], London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, OCLC 228757725 ↗, page 343 ↗:
- John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown, / A train-band Captain eke was he / Of famous London town.
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