Spokes

Word SPOKES
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Spokes"

What do we mean by 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 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.

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The word "spokes" in example sentences

For instance, I am very much for affirmative action, urban economic incentives, and many other things that are part of the NAACP platform the dubbed spokes group for African-Americans. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The workmen were surprised to get a visitor and willingly showed me around the six enormous cell blocks which radiate in clumsy spokes from a central courtyard and administration building. ❋ Unknown (1971)

But I seem to remember Bono as being one of the RIAA’s stable of whiny corporate-label spokes-bitches in regard to how evil p2p is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I was boy, three score and ten years later, the trotters still ran, pulling sulkies, the two wheels spinning so fast the spokes were a blur. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Then we came up with spokes to those spokes -- in other words, the true actionable meaning of love, purpose, happiness, abundance and connection to source. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I actually thought a bespoke suit was a suit made out of spokes, which isn't nearly as bad as it sounds--I have a chicken wire cocktail dress and it's simply fabulous. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

When Bruce pulled the lever which opened the valve, and heard the hiss of the water when it shot from the nozzle and hit the wheel, and watched the belt, and shaft, and big fly-wheel speed up until the spokes were a blur and the breeze it created lifted his hair, it was the happiest moment of his life. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

Then she twirled the wheel so fast that the spokes were a blur. ❋ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1891)

Friesen, like some other park dwellers, supports a new organizational structure called the spokes council. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

The ghostly features in Saturn's B ring called spokes are making an appearance again as the Cassini spacecraft continues its tour of the Saturn system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I may have built it with incorrectly sized spokes, which isn't my fault because I bought it as a set. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As she passes the ribbon through the lavender bars or "spokes" she explains that hand-woven lavender bottles have been used from time immemorial to freshen drawers and armoires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Responding to a reporter's query at its weekly press conference, a "spokes" person for the group addressed the matter of the union's preference for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain by convincingly portraying a man carrying a heavy trunk on his back across a beach. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If anyone knows how to build a wheel with those kind of spokes let me know. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

I think the monitor being equaled, you may agree that colors have "spokes" of intensity when understood as cones receiving the different hues differently. ❋ James Gurney (2008)

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