Meaning

5 senses
  1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

    Speiche

    спи́цаspíca

    спи́цяspýcja, шпи́цяšpýcja

    support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

  2. A projecting handle of a steering wheel.

  3. A rung of a ladder.

    one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder

  4. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.

  5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. One of the spokes on my bicycle is broken.

  2. Don't put your hands in the spokes.

  3. One of my bike's spokes has bust.

    deAn meinem Fahrrad ist eine Speiche gerissen. — brauchinet

  4. She's always putting spokes in other people's wheels.

    ruОна вечно вставляет всем палки в колеса. — V_Zmoova

  5. One of the spokes on my bike has gone.

    deAn meinem Fahrrad ist eine Speiche gerissen. — brauchinet

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:
Русский
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:

Origin

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.

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Forms

plural: spokes
Singularspoke
Pluralspokes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim:wheel spokeradius
  • one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder:rundlerung

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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