spar vs spoke

spar

noun
  • A thick pole or piece of wood. 

  • Any crystal with readily discernible faces. 

  • A rafter of a roof. 

  • A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil. 

  • A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting. 

  • Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft. 

  • Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff. 

verb
  • To contest in words; to wrangle. 

  • To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars. 

  • To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat. 

  • To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do. 

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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