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Spoke
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- 1 A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
"The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim."
- 2 one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder wordnet
- 3 A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- 4 support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim wordnet
- 5 A rung of a ladder.
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- 6 A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
- 7 One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
- 1 To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. transitive
- 2 simple past of speak form-of, past
- 3 past participle of speak archaic, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
"Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided."
Etymology
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
From Middle English speke, spake, spoke, spak, spek, speken, spoken, from Old English spæc, specen.
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