spoke

• enPR: spōk, IPA^(key): /spəʊk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk
• Hyphenation: spoke

From Middle English spoke, spok, spook, from Old English spāca, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.

spoke (plural spokes)

1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

• hub-and-spoke

spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked)

1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

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spoke

1. simple past tense of speak

• pokes, posek

spoke

1. plural of spook

spoke

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of spoken

• spook, spok, spak, spake

From Old English spāca, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.

• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /spɑːk(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːk(ə)/

spoke (plural spokes or spoken)

1. A spoke (support radiating from the middle of a wheel)
2. A sharp spike or projection on the edge of a wheel.

• English: spoke
• Scots: spaik

• “spōk(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.