Definition of Spoke

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Definition of Spoke

Spoke

of Speak

imp. of Speak.

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.

A projecting handle of a steering wheel.

A rung, or round, of a ladder.

A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.

To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

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Spoke Quotations

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
Pope John Paul II

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
Louis Farrakhan

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
Mike Myers

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg

Spoke Translations

spoke in German is Speiche, Radspeiche, gesprochen, sprach
spoke in Italian is raggio
spoke in Swedish is eker

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