Definition of "spoke"

spoke¹

/spəʊk/

noun
plural spokes
1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
verb
third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked
1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

spoke²

/spəʊk/

verb
1. simple past of speak
2. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of speak
  Quotations
  Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii], page 366, column 2
  Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe, […]
  1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer‎, volume 10, C. Ackers, page 435
  I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.
  2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel‎, PM Press, page 131