Eke vs Erke - What's the difference?
eke | erke |
To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
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(beekeeping, archaic) A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.
(obsolete) Also.
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In obsolete terms the difference between eke and erke
is that eke is also while erke is slothful.As a verb eke
is to increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.As a noun eke
is an addition.As an adverb eke
is also.As an adjective erke is
slothful.eke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(ek)- Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Adverb
(-)- 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in hall / Round-table like a farthingal, / On which, with shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before, his good knights dined.
- 'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'