[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That serves to eke out.
1653. B[arnabas] O[ley], Account of Wks., in T. Jackson’s Wks. (c). His Style … is more short than other Authors, in Relatives, in Eeking and helping particles.
1814. D’Israeli, Quarrels Auth. (1867), 346. Suppressed invectives and eking rhymes could but ill appease so fierce a mastiff.
