spoke vs steering wheel

spoke

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. 

verb
  • simple past tense of speak 

  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

steering wheel

noun
  • A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles. 

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