Meaning

3 senses

  1. (dialectal)An addition.

  2. A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.

  3. (archaic)A small stand on which a beehive is placed.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Many people are struggling to eke out a living.

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  2. During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.

    ruВо время засухи фермеры едва сводят концы с концами. — odexed

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  3. My old computer now ekes out a dreary existence in the attic.

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  4. "Eke out" is a common phrasal verb in English.

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Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English eke (“addition, increase, enlargement”), from Old

The noun is derived from Middle English eke (“addition, increase, enlargement”), from Old English ēaca, from Proto-Germanic *aukô, from *aukaną (“to increase, add, enlarge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). The English noun is cognate with Old Frisian āka (“addition, increase; bonus”), Old Norse auki (“growth, increase, proliferation”).

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Forms

plural: ekes
Singulareke
Pluralekes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ejaculateejaculationejectelelaborateC1

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