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:
“Youll have me over the cliff, he exclaimed hardly ever yet putting out his strength against her.
And so I will, by the help of God. Now think of her! Now think of her! And as she spoke she pressed him backwards towards his fall.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)
“We can remember as easily as the day we were born
The maggots we passed on the way and how the day bled
And the night too on hearing us, though we spoke only our childish
Ideas and never tried to impress anybody even when somewhat older.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)