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:

    “The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    “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 (1819–1891)