spoke

• IPA^(key): /spəʊk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk
• Hyphenation: spoke

From Middle English spoke, 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 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.

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 of speak
2. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of speak
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 366, column 2:

     Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.

   • 1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer‎, volume 10, C. Ackers, page 435:

     Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe, […]

   • 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel‎, PM Press, page 131:

     I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

• kepos, pokes, posek

spoke

1. plural of spook

spoke

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of spoken

• spak, spake, spok, spook

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːk(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑːk(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈspaːk/

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
• Yola: spagh

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