spoke

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.

noun

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 device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Etymology 2

verb

1. simple past of speak
2. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of speak
   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. 1 May 2014, John Barker, Futures: A Novel, PM Press, page 131