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Language: Old English
Origin: spaca

spoke

2 noun
     
spoke
Related topics: Bicycles, Carts, Horses
spoke2 [countable]
1TTB one of the thin metal bars which connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle
2

put a spoke in somebody's wheel

British English to prevent someone from doing something they have planned
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