spoke

Meaning

1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

radius

rundle

wheel spoke

steel rod

wheel arm

reinforcing steel

wheel rib

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spəʊk/

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”) and English spike.

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speak

1. To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
2. To have a conversation.
3. To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
4. To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
5. To be able to communicate in a language.
6. To be able to communicate in a language.
7. To utter.
8. To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
9. (informal) To understand (as though it were a language).
10. To produce a sound; to sound.
11. Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
12. To address; to accost; to speak to.