Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
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 stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
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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