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:

    “For he could coin, or counterfeit
    New words, with little or no wit;
    Words so debas’d and hard, no stone
    Was hard enough to touch them on;
    And when with hasty noise he spoke ‘em;
    The ignorant for current took ‘em;”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

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