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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Spoke \Spoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spoked} (sp[=o]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Spoking}.] To furnish with spokes, as a wheel. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Spoke \Spoke\ (sp[=o]k), imp. of {Speak}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Spoke \Spoke\, n. [OE. spoke, spake, AS. sp[=a]ca; akin to D. speek, LG. speke, OHG. speihha, G. speiche. [root]170. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel. [1913 Webster] 3. A rung, or round, of a ladder. [1913 Webster] 4. A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill. [1913 Webster] {To put a spoke in one's wheel}, to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p. {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj 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. [1913 Webster] Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. [1913 Webster] That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. --Shak. [1913 Webster] During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. [1913 Webster] Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] 4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. [1913 Webster] Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 5. To give sound; to sound. [1913 Webster] Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. [1913 Webster] Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: spoke n 1: support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim [syn: {spoke}, {wheel spoke}, {radius}] 2: one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn: {rundle}, {spoke}, {rung}]