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Spoked vs Spiked - What's the difference?

spoked | spiked |

As adjectives the difference between spoked and spiked

is that spoked is having spokes while spiked is (of a beverage) containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.

As a verb spiked is

(spike).

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. }}

    spiked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.
  • The large punch bowl has the special spiked punch, the small punch bowl is for the kids.
  • Having spikes.
  • Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.
  • Synonyms

    * (having spikes): peaked, spiky

    Derived terms

    * spiked sample * spiked value

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spike)