girder vs spoke

girder

noun
  • A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. 

  • One who girds; a satirist. 

spoke

noun
  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. 

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation. 

  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill. 

verb
  • simple past tense of speak 

  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

How often have the words girder and spoke occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )