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Spoke vs Spoked - What's the difference?

spoke | spoked |

As a noun spoke

is a support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

As a verb spoke

is to furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

As an adjective spoked is

having spokes.

spoke

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) spaca

Noun

(wikipedia spoke) (en noun)
  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
  • (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
  • A rung of a ladder.
  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
  • Verb

    (spok)
  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (speak)
  • Statistics

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    spoked

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having spokes
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Olive M. Briggs, title=The Black Cross, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive. }}
  • * 1986 , Mary Dove, The perfect age of man's life (page 84)
  • On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=June 1, author=R.M. Johnson, title=On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s. }}