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Postby Bailey » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:14 pm

eke 1 (k)
tr.v. eked, ek·ing, ekes
1. To supplement with great effort. Used with out: eked out an income by working two jobs.
2. To get with great effort or strain. Used with out: eke a bare existence from farming in an arid area.
3. To make (a supply) last by practicing strict economy. Used with out.



[Middle English eken, to increase, from Old English can; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]

eke 2 (k)
adv. Archaic
Also.


[Middle English, from Old English ac, c.]
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Postby Perry » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:29 pm

To supplement with great effort.
It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.

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Postby Bailey » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:14 pm

It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in Perry

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Postby gailr » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:46 pm

The agora chorus (we few, we happy few, we band of posters) with a nod to Henry V:
"Still be kind,
And eke out our performance with your mind."

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Postby Bailey » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:09 pm

Thanks for the extra quote, here's one more recent
In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules

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Postby Perry » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:50 pm

It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in Perry

mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.
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Postby sluggo » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:30 am

It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in Perry

mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.
Apparently the Eke Squad has peked.
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Postby Palewriter » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:54 am

It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in Perry

mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.
Perhaps we should try for a trifeckta?

--PW
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Postby Bailey » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:19 am

or even a triekeda?

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