Noun: spoke
| Singular | spoke |
| Plural | spokes |
Sample Sentences
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The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim. [1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 4:]
Nouns inflected like spoke
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike. See: Middle English Nouns '
spoke', Old English Nouns '
spāca', Dutch Nouns '
spaak'.
Verbs referencing "spoke"
German Nouns
Speiche, Finnish Nouns
paikka, Swedish Nouns
spak.