Definition of eke

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Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other..

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Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
Petitor :: Petitor (n.) One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.
Bewreke :: Bewreke (v. t.) To wreak; to avenge.
Blue-eye :: Blue-eye (n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
Sicle :: Sicle (n.) A shekel.
Pleasurer :: Pleasurer (n.) A pleasure seeker.
Maneh :: Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver..
Shrieked :: Shrieked (imp. & p. p.) of Shrie.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household..
Seeker :: Seeker (n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments..
Questrist :: Questrist (n.) A seeker; a pursuer.
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A housewife or housekeeper.
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Frugal :: Frugal (n.) Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time..
Greekess :: Greekess (n.) A female Greek.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) A house dog.
Seke :: Seke (a.) Sick.
Cold :: Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed..
Eked :: Eked (imp. & p. p.) of Ek.
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