[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

eke \eke\ =ek, v. t. imp.  p. p. eked =ekt; p. pr. 
   vb. n. eking. as. =ekan, =ykan; akin to ofries.
   =aka, os. =okian, ohg. ouhh=on to add, icel. auka to
   increase, sw. "oka, dan. "oge, goth. aukan, l. augere,
   skr. =ojas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to english
   wax, v. i. cf. augment, nickname.
   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. "to eke my pain."
   --spenser.
   1913 webster

         he eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
         pounds.                                  --macaulay.
   1913 webster
see also:
eked eking augment nickname 

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