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Synonyms for spoked

Grammar : Adj
Spell : spohk
Phonetic Transcription : spoÊŠk

Définition of spoked

Origin :
  • (of a wheel), Old English spaca "spoke," related to spicing "large nail," from Proto-Germanic *spaikon (cf. Old Saxon speca, Old Frisian spake, Dutch spaak, Old High German speicha, German speiche "spoke"), probably from PIE *spei- "sharp point" (see spike (n.1)).
  • As in radial : adj branching
Example sentences :
  • The wheels were about four feet high, spoked, and shod round with iron.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization » by P. W. Joyce
  • Pressing this invention to the ultimate produced a spoked wheel.
  • Extract from : « The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel » by Arthur W. Orton
  • Wawn day I spoked to un, but 'ee wudden zay nothin,' but 'The devil's a 'ard maaster, Mrs. Pethick.'
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Rose Again » by Joseph Hocking
  • Jason's group, and the two others, shuffled into position and seated their bars, making a four spoked wheel out of the capstan.
  • Extract from : « The Ethical Engineer » by Henry Maxwell Dempsey
  • The wheel is eight spoked, and reaches as high as the shoulders of the horses, which implies a diameter of about five feet.
  • Extract from : « The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria » by George Rawlinson
  • With fearful recollections of the Livadia accident in his mind, he watched the nearing lights and spoked the wheel over.
  • Extract from : « The Viking Blood » by Frederick William Wallace
  • Unloaded cart and spoked it over a bad bit, and loaded it again.
  • Extract from : « The British Expedition to the Crimea » by William Howard Russell
  • Daddy is going to send me to buy half a dozen spoked chairs, painted blue, with flowers on the backs.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 » by Various
  • Monson knelt at his post forward, and his hands trembled on the spoked wheel that moved the wings.
  • Extract from : « The Plattner Story and Others » by H. G. Wells

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