lay hands on vs spoke

lay hands on

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, hands. 

  • To seize or assault. 

  • If we can lay hands on some chicken wire and a black light, we can make some scary Halloween decorations. 

  • To find, obtain or procure. 

spoke

verb
  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

  • simple past tense of speak 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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