LekhoriLekhoriA support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim.
A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
A rung of a ladder.
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
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