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单词 eking
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ekingn.

/ˈiːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < eke v. + -ing suffix1.
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.)
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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.

/ˈiːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < eke v. + -ing suffix2.
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).
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