1. Verb
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
2. Adverb
In addition; also; likewise.
3. Noun
An addition.
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