单词 | eking |
释义 | ekingn. 1. The action of adding or making an addition; the action of putting an ‘eke’ to (a bell-rope). ΚΠ c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. viii. 53 In ekyng als of Goddis serwyce Scho fowndyt..twa chapellanyis. 1576 in T. Smith Rotherham Acc. (1878) 12 For ekeing of a bell-rope. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 31 But such eeking hath made my hart sore. 2. An augmentation, increase. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > an increase eke894 increasec1384 eking1393 augmentationc1452 superexcrescence1479 access1548 accrue1548 accession1551 increasement1561 ekementa1603 afflux1603 accruement1607 increment1631 rise1654 plusa1721 raise1729 swell1768 gain1851 step-up1922 upcurve1928 build-up1943 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 22 And make an ekynge of my peine. 1483 Cath. Angl. 112 An Ekynge, augmentum. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Accruë A growth, eeking, augmentation. 3. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1819 J. Ross Voy. Discov. Baffin's Bay p. xviii Hooks and ekeings were placed in the bows above the lower-deck hook. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2019). ekingadj. That serves to eke out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > making complete > by supplying what is wanting supplemental1605 supplianta1616 suppletorya1631 suppletive1633 expletive1652 eking1653 supplementary1667 makeweight1701 suppl.1800 supplementing1851 make-up1885 add-on1955 1653 B. Oley in Jackson Wks. Pref. His stile..is more short than other Authours in Relatives, in Eeking and helping particles. 1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. II. 35 Suppressed invectives and eking rhimes, could but ill appease so fierce a mastiff. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1393adj.1653 |
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