baton vs spoke

baton

noun
  • A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence. 

  • A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK). 

  • An object transferred by runners in a relay race. 

  • A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes. 

  • The stick of a conductor in musical performances. 

  • A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children, 

verb
  • To strike with a baton. 

spoke

noun
  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

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

  • 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. 

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