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:
“The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)
“Then spoke the thunder
Da
Datta: what have we given?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“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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