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▪ I. eking, vbl. n.|ˈiːkɪŋ|
[f. eke v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of adding or making an addition; the action of putting an ‘eke’ to (a bell-rope).
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. viii. 53 In ekyng als of Goddis serwyce Scho fowndyt..twa chapellanyis. 1576in Miss T. Smith Rotherham Acc. (1878) 12 For ekeing of a bell-rope. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 31 But such eeking hath made my hart sore.
2. An augmentation, increase.
1393Gower Conf. II. 22 And make an ekynge of my peine. 1483Cath. Angl. 112 An Ekynge, augmentum. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Accrue, a growth, eeking, augmentation.
3. (See quot.)
1819J. Ross Voy. Discovery p. xviii, Hooks and ekeings were placed in the bows above the lower-deck hook. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Ekeing, a piece of wood fitted, by scarphing or butting, to make good a deficiency in length, as the end of a knee and the like. The ekeing is also the carved work under the lower part of the quarter⁓piece, at the aft part of the gallery.
▪ II. eking, ppl. a.|ˈiːkɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That serves to eke out.
1653B[arnabas] O[ley] Account of Wks. in Jackson's Wks., His stile..is more short than other Authours in Relatives, in Eeking and helping particles. 1814D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 346 Suppressed invectives and eking rhymes could but ill appease so fierce a mastiff. |