Spoke

Quick meaning: Spoke is a noun meaning A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

Meaning

A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
2. A rung of a ladder.
3. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
4. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
5. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
6. simple past of speak
7. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of speak

Example Sentences

Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.

I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe,[…]

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.

Word Forms

• spokes
• spoking
• spoked

Synonyms for spoke

Depending on context, synonyms include rung, radius, rundle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rundle, rung, radius, stepped, saw, pointed.

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