Eke cut

Eke cut
v. trans.
Prolong: P. and V. ἐκτείνειν. μηκνειν, τείνειν. P. ἀποτείνειν.
Eke out a livelihood: V. συλλέγειν βίον (Eur., El. 81).
He shall eke out a life of misery: V. λυπρὸν ἀντλήσει βίον (Eur., Hipp. 898).
I eked out a precarious existence: Ar. ἡμικάκως ἐβοσκόμην (Thesm. 449).
The luckless Orestes ekes out a poor subsistence: V. τλήμων ρέστης δυστυχῆ τρίβει βίον (Soph., El. 602).

Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language. 2014.

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