spoke
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spoke¹
- /spəʊk/ UK
- /spoʊk/ US
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
noun spokes
- 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.
- 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.
verb spokes · spoking · spoked
- To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
spoke²
- /spəʊk/ UK
- /spoʊk/ US
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
From Middle English speke, spake, spoke, spak, spek, speken, spoken, from Old English spæc, specen.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rundle, rung, radius, stepped, saw, pointed, raised, radar, radial, cast, radio, ruled, west, accosted, made, delivered
Translations
Every language
noun part of a wheel
| Español | rayo, radio, varilla, ray |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 바퀴살 bakwisal, 살 sal |
| 日本語 | スポーク supōku, 輻 ya |
| 中文 | 輻條 /辐条 fútiáo, 輻 /辐 fú, 輪輻 /轮辐 lúnfú |
| Português | raio |
| Français | rayon |
| Deutsch | Speiche |
| Italiano | raggio, razzo |
| Ελληνικά | ακτίνα aktína |
| Română | spiță |
| Русский | спи́ца spíca |
| Tiếng Việt | nan hoa, căm |
| العربية | سِلْك m شُعَاع šuʕāʕ |
| עברית | חִשּׁוּר khishúr |
verb Translations
| Español | radiar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | einspeichen |
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title = {spoke},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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