Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (obsolete except in eke out) To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
Substantiivit
- (obsolete) An addition.
- (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.
Adverbit
- (obsolete) Also.
Esimerkit
- Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke?
- Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
- '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.'
- The typical medieval house was essentially a timber structure, though, for reasons of economy, its construction was eked out with cheaper material; and, speaking loosely, the later the house the greater the proportion of cheap material. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | eked |
| Imperfekti | eked |
| Partisiipin preesens | eking |
| Monikko | ekes |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ekes |