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:

    “I never spoke with God
    Nor visited in Heaven—
    Yet certain am I of the spot
    As if the Checks were given—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “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)

    “Then spoke the thunder
    Da
    Datta: what have we given?”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)