Spōke1, imp.
(20), imp. of speak. See SPEAK.
3 entries under this word
Spoke
Spōke2, n.
n. [A-S. spāca, D. speek, spaak, L. Ger. speke, O. H. Ger. speihho, speihha, N. H. Ger. speiche.]
Sense 1. The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
Sense 2. The spar, or round, of a ladder.
Sense 3. A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill; a kind of skid. Simmonds.
To put a spoke in one's wheel, to say something of him which is calculated to injure him or prevent his success; to thwart one. Halliwell.
Spōke3, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. SPOKED (spōkt); p. pr. & vb. n. SPOKING.] To furnish with spokes; as, to spoke a wheel.