Definitions for spokes

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spokes spoke

Spelling: [spohk]

IPA: /spoʊk/

Spokes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in spokes (ekopss).

Definitions for spokes

noun

1. one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
2. something that resembles the spoke of a wheel.
3. a handlelike projection from the rim of a wheel, as a ship's steering wheel.
4. a rung of a ladder.
5. one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
6. something that resembles the spoke of a wheel.
7. a handlelike projection from the rim of a wheel, as a ship's steering wheel.
8. a rung of a ladder.

verb

1. a simple past tense of speak.
2. Nonstandard. a past participle of speak.
3. Archaic. a past participle of speak.
4. a simple past tense of speak.
5. Nonstandard. a past participle of speak.
6. Archaic. a past participle of speak.

Idioms

1. so to speak, to use a manner of speaking; figuratively speaking:
2. speak by the book, to say with great authority or precision:
3. speak well for, to be an indication or reflection of (something commendable); testify admirably to:
4. to speak of, worth mentioning:

Verb phrases

1. speak for, to intercede for or recommend; speak in behalf of. to express or articulate the views of; represent. to choose or prefer; have reserved for oneself:
2. speak out, to express one's opinion openly and unreservedly:

verb (used with object)

1. to fit or furnish with or as with spokes.
2. to utter vocally and articulately:
3. to express or make known with the voice:
4. to declare in writing or printing, or by any means of communication.
5. to make known, indicate, or reveal.
6. to use, or be able to use, in oral utterance, as a language:
7. (of a computer) to express or make known (data, prompts, etc.) by means of an audio response unit.
8. Nautical. to communicate with (a passing vessel) at sea, as by voice or signal:
9. Archaic. to speak to or with.
10. to fit or furnish with or as with spokes.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk:
2. to communicate vocally; mention:
3. to converse:
4. to deliver an address, discourse, etc.:
5. to make a statement in written or printed words.
6. to communicate, signify, or disclose by any means; convey significance.
7. Phonetics. to produce sounds or audible sequences of individual or concatenated sounds of a language, especially through phonation, amplification, and resonance, and through any of a variety of articulatory processes.
8. (of a computer) to express data or other information audibly by means of an audio response unit.
9. to emit a sound, as a musical instrument; make a noise or report.
10. Chiefly British. (of dogs) to bark when ordered.
11. Fox Hunting. (of a hound or pack) to bay on finding a scent.

Origin of spokes

before 900; Middle English; Old English spāca; cognate with Dutch speek, German Speiche

Examples for spokes

Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.

Last summer, I spoke with first black supermodel Beverly Johnson about this for The Root.

A second and a third time the Ethiopian touched him with his wand, and spoke in whispers.

Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.

His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.

From the first moment you spoke, I have felt this mysterious power.

As she spoke, Geta lifted the curtain, and Philothea instantly obeyed the signal.

I spoke to Philothea just as I used to do; without remembering that she had died.

He arose, as he spoke, and reverently placed the chaplet on the head of Plato.

But many I spoke to felt that even when the police were making arrests, they were frequently focused on the wrong issues.

He swallowed once or twice, and his hands tightened on the spokes of the wheel.

Its details blurred like the spokes of a swiftly turning wheel.

Should he have grasped the spokes near the hub, near the rim, or in the middle?

I seized her hands and placed them on the spokes of the wheel.

As the spokes get nearer the centre of the wheel, they get nearer to one another.

The spokes were flat bands of steel, curved outward to the tire.

spokes was there, for spokes had swum round the Black Buoy, and become a “shark.”

There were four "children of Horus" and four spokes to the wheel of the sun.

It was like the hub of a wheel, only there were not so many passages as there are spokes in most wheels.

"N-n-not exactly," says Miss Hampton, grippin' the spokes gingerly.