Spoke

Spoke

A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.

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Famous quotes containing the word spoke:

    “You never spoke what did become you less
    Than this.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
    trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your
    players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The women that I picked spoke sweet and low
    And yet gave tongue. “Hound voices” were they all.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)