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.
The term originally referred to portions of a log which had been split lengthwise into four or six sections. The radial members of a wagon wheel were made by carving a spoke (from a log) into their finished shape. A spokeshave is a tool originally developed for this purpose. Eventually, the term spoke was more commonly applied to the finished product of the wheelwright's work, than to the materials he used.
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... Leodes rushed in and caught the knees of Odysseus, and spoke to him in winged words and supplication 'I am at your knees, Odysseus ... past favors.' Then looking darkly at him spoke resourceful Odysseus 'If you claim to be the diviner among these people, many a time you must have prayed in my palace, asking that the completion of my sweet ... cannot escape from sorry destruction.' So he spoke, and in his heavy hand caught up a sword that was lying there on the ground where Agelaos had dropped ...
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... entered Parliament as Whig member for Great Yarmouth, and he spoke in the Commons in favour of the bill to abolish the slave trade in February 1807, and remained a lifelong advocate of the anti-slavery cause ... He supported Catholic Emancipation and spoke in favour of repealing the civil disabilities which applied to Jews he was also a strong supporter of ... counsel retained by Queen Caroline, and spoke in her defence during her trial before the House of Lords ...
Famous quotes containing the word spoke:
““Come unto me,” [Krokowski] was saying, though not in those words, “come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy-laden”.... He spoke of secret suffering, of shame and sorrow, of the redeeming power of the analytic. He advocated the bringing of light into the unconscious mind.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)