Spoke
[spəʊk] or [spok]
Definition
(noun.) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim.
Typed by Josephine--From WordNet
Definition
(imp.) of Speak
(-) of Speak
(-) imp. of Speak.
(n.) The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
(n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
(n.) A rung, or round, of a ladder.
(n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
(v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.
Editor: Warren
Definition
n. one of the bars from the nave to the rim of a wheel.—Put a spoke in one's wheel to thwart a person by some impediment.
pa.t. of speak.
Editor: Vanessa
Examples
- The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Southey spoke of him as a miraculous young man, at whose talents he could only wonder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At the hotel I asked Catherine to wait in the carriage while I went in and spoke to the manager. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The wheels had heavy cast iron hubs with wooden spokes and rims and wrought iron tires, and the frame was of wood placed outside the wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Edison devised a machine to answer the purpose, and put long spokes on it, fitted it up, and shipped it to China. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Counting the spokes there are, it is estimated, more than 300 different parts in such a wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With Blanchard’s improvement, patented January 20, 1820, any irregular form, such as a shoe-last, gun-stock, ax-handle, wheel-spokes, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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