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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope