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eke out

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eke something out
to extend something; to add to something. He worked at two jobs in order to eke his income out. He managed to eke out a living.
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In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
Game was scanty, and they had to eke out their scanty fare with wild roots and vegetables, such as the Indian potato, the wild onion, and the prairie tomato, and they met with quantities of "red root," from which the hunters make a very palatable beverage.
`Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing?
 
 
 
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