leap vs spoke

leap

noun
  • A salmon ladder. 

  • The distance traversed by a leap or jump. 

  • A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. 

  • Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. 

  • Half a bushel. 

  • A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals. 

  • A fault. 

  • A significant move forward. 

  • The act of leaping or jumping. 

  • A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely. 

  • A group of leopards. 

verb
  • To pass over by a leap or jump. 

  • To cause to leap. 

  • To jump. 

adj
  • Intercalary, bissextile. 

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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