Eker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who ekes.

    "What with the increased cost and the continued element of unreliability that these facts mean, I don't see in hydro-electricity more than an eker-out of coal and oil, not a supplanter."

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"What with the increased cost and the continued element of unreliability that these facts mean, I don't see in hydro-electricity more than an eker-out of coal and oil, not a supplanter."

Etymology

From eke + -er.

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