Eked
[i:kt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Eke
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- No; his heart was bound up in his work only: that was the end for which his failing life was to be eked out by hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They eked out this food supply by hunting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Wilma