aked English
Verb
(head)
(ake)
Anagrams
*
ake English
Etymology 1
Verb
(en-verb)
* ... for let our finger ake , / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
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, passage=instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake " to listen to their mad talk.
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, author=LT Wolf
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, page=
, passage=The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.
}}
Etymology 2
(etyl).
Adverb
(-)
forever
Anagrams
*
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eked English
Verb
(head)
(eke)
Anagrams
*
*
eke English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Verb
( ek)
To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
*
- Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?
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, title=Branson's spaceship steals the spotlight at airshow
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, accessdate=2012-07-12
, passage=British tycoon Richard Branson stole the show here Wednesday, announcing that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space, as Airbus and Boeing eked out more plane orders.
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Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) An addition.
* Geddes
- Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(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.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .
Adverb
( -)
(obsolete) Also.
* 1663 ,
- '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.
* 1782 ,
- 'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'
See also
* eke out
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