eke

EKE, v.t. [L. augeo.]

1. To increase; to enlarge; as, to eke a store of provisions.

2. To add to; to supply what is wanted; to enlarge by addition; sometimes with out; as, to eke or eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance.

3. To lengthen; to prolong; as, to eke out the time.

EKE, adv. [L. ac, and also.] Also, likewise; in addition.

'Twill be prodigious hard to prove,

That this is eke the throne of love.

[This word is nearly obsolete, being used only in poetry of the familiar and ludicrous kind.]