spoke

Meanings

Noun

• A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
• 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.
• One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Verb

• To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
• Past of speak
• Past participle of speak

Origin

• From Middle English spoke, spok, spook, from Old English spāca, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.