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spoke 1,(dictionary)
spoke(dictionary)
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radial spoke(medicine)
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mansonia (medicine) and spoke (iou)


mansonia (medicine)


Mansonia


A genus of brown or black medium-sized mosquitoes (tribe Culicini), often having banded abdomen and legs; larvae and pupae have modified breathing tubes enabling them to pierce aquatic plants to obtain air. Mansonia mosquitoes are distributed worldwide and, in tropical areas, are important vectors of Brugia malayi; in some areas they also transmit Wuchereria bancrofti.

Origin: P. Manson


spoke (iou)



spoke noun & verb1.
[Old English spaca = Old Frisian speke, spake, Old Saxon speca, Old High German speihha (Dutch speek, German Speiche), from West Germanic, from Germanic base of SPIKE noun1.]
A. noun.
Each of the bars or rods radiating from the hub of a wheel to support the rim. OE.
b. Each of a set of radial handles projecting from a wheel or cylinder, esp. a ship's wheel. M17.
c. Basket-making. = STAKE noun1 4c. L19.
A bar or rod of wood etc., esp. as used for a particular purpose; a stake, a pole; spec. (a) a rung of a ladder; (b) Scottish History each of the poles used for carrying a coffin to the graveside. LME.
Botany. A pedicel of an umbel; a ray. rare. L16-L18.
Phrases: a spoke in a person's wheel a thing that thwarts or hinders a person, an impediment, an obstacle, (now chiefly in put a spoke in a person's wheel, thwart or hinder a person). put one's spoke in = put one's oar in s.v. OAR noun.
Comb.: spokeshave a kind of draw-knife consisting of a blade set between two handles placed lengthwise, used for planing spokes and Other work unsuitable for an ordinary plane.
b. verb trans.
Provide or construct with spokes; fig. mark with radial lines like spokes. E18.
Thrust a spoke into (a wheel etc.) to check movement; fig. block, impede, obstruct. M19.
Drive or force (a wheel or vehicle) forward by pushing the spokes. M19.
spokeless adjective LME.
spokewise adverb in the manner of the spokes of a wheel M19.