spoked

English

Etymology

spoke +‎ -ed

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -əʊkt

Adjective

spoked (not comparable)

  1. having spokes
    • 1909, Olive M. Briggs, The Black Cross‎:
      The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive.
    • 1986, Mary Dove, The perfect age of man's life (page 84)
      On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen […]
    • 2001 June 1, R.M. Johnson, “On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.

Verb

spoked

  1. simple past tense and past participle of spoke
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