/spəʊk/, /spoʊk/
OriginFrom 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.
- 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 i”
- A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- A rung of a ladder.
- A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
- One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
- transitiveTo furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
- form-of, pastsimple past of speak
- archaic, form-of, nonstandard, participle, pastpast participle of speak
“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.”
Formsspokes(plural) · spokes(present, singular, third-person) · spoking(participle, present) · spoked(participle, past) · spoked(past)