Spoke vs Spoked - What's the difference?
spoke | spoked |
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.
To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
(speak)
having spokes
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Olive M. Briggs, title=The Black Cross, chapter=, edition=
, 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)
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=June 1, author=R.M. Johnson, title=On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors, work=Chicago Reader
, 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. }}
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) spacaNoun
(wikipedia spoke) (en noun)Verb
(spok)Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Statistics
*spoked
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Adjective
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- 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
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