English: just managed
Source: Peter Martin's Kelabit Dictionary
nikel: to manage with much effort
nikel (ng-tikel): just manage to get by, barely survive; to handle, to take care of (a problem); able to take something (as food after one has been sick)
senikel: was managed by sby after much effort
tikel tikel: constantly struggle for a living (as a poor man who barely gets by)