Associations to the word «Eke»

Wiktionary

EKE, verb. (obsolete except in eke out) To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
EKE, noun. (obsolete) An addition.
EKE, noun. (beekeeping) (archaic) 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.
EKE, adverb. (obsolete) Also.
EKE OUT, verb. (transitive) to supplement
EKE OUT, verb. (transitive) To obtain with difficulty or effort.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin