aisle vs spoke

aisle

noun
  • Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle. 

  • Any path through an otherwise obstructed space. 

  • A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. 

  • A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. 

  • The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymically) marriage. 

  • An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle. 

  • A clear path through rows of seating. 

spoke

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

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

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

  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • 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 aisle and spoke occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )