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 (15641616)
“Then the well spoke to me.
It said: Abundance is scooped from abundance,
yet abundance remains.
Then I knew.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn
Where a little headstone stood;
How the flakes were folding it gently,
As did robins the babes in the wood.
Up spoke our own little Mabel,
Saying, Father, who makes it snow?
And I told of the good All-father
Who cares for us here below.”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)
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