Section lifted from weekend supplement (3)
I believe the answer is:
eke
'supplement' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
I don't understand the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eke that I've seen before include "long ago" , "Make a laborious living" , "Make last longer" , "Make a living laboriously - a palindrome" , "addition to Scots" .)