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/spəʊk/ · noun
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.
Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.
Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe,[…]
I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.
Use spoke when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spoke means A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim..
Common synonyms include rung, radius, rundle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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