SPOKE

rundle, spoke, rung

(noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder

spoke, wheel spoke, radius

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

SPEAK

talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise

(verb) express in speech; “She talks a lot of nonsense”; “This depressed patient does not verbalize”

talk, speak

(verb) exchange thoughts; talk with; “We often talk business”; “Actions talk louder than words”

speak, talk

(verb) use language; “the baby talks already”; “the prisoner won’t speak”; “they speak a strange dialect”

address, speak

(verb) give a speech to; “The chairman addressed the board of trustees”

speak

(verb) make a characteristic or natural sound; “The drums spoke”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

spoke (plural spokes)

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

(nautical) 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

spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked)

(transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Etymology 2

Verb

spoke

simple past tense of speak

(now, colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of speak

Anagrams

• kepos, pokes, posek

Source: Wiktionary

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Spoke,

Definition: imp. of Speak.

Spoke, n. Etym: [OE. spoke, spake, AS, spaca; akin to D. speek, LG. speke, OHG. speihha, G. speiche. sq. root170. Cf. Spike a nail.]

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.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: A projecting handle of a steering wheel.

3. A rung, or round, of a ladder.

4. A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill. To put a spoke in one's wheel, to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design.

Spoke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Spoking.]

Definition: To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

SPEAK

Speak, v. i. [imp. Spoke (Spake ( Archaic); p. p. Spoken (Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] Etym: [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]

1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Till at the last spake in this manner. Chaucer. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. 1 Sam. iii. 9.

2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay.

3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.

4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison.

5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. Shak.

6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia).

– To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.

– To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.

– To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me" Shak.

Syn.

– To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.

Speak, v. t.

1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.

2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.

3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. Shak. Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.

4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer.

5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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