LekhoriLekhoriAn addition.
A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.
Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
Also; in addition to.
The ſoote [i.e., sweet] ſeaſon, that bud and blome forth brings, / With grene hath clad the hill, and eke the vale: […]
The noun is derived from Middle English eke (“addition, increase, enlargement”), from Old English ēaca, from Proto-Germanic *aukô, from *aukaną (“to increase, add, enlarge”), ultimately from Proto-Ind...
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Is not enough, that thruſt from heauen dew / Here endleſſe penaunce for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeaunce new / Thou biddeſt me to eeke?