I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the spokes of a wheel (= the thin metal bars that connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle wheel )
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
put
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That would put a spoke in their wheel.
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It's just the oldies trying to put a spoke in our wheel.
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But the Supreme Soviet has, at least temporarily, put a spoke in the wheels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Harper rode up to the man and saw the broken wheel spokes impaled in his belly and groin.
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He drew every spoke in the wheels, and the whole affair looked as if it had been instantaneously petrified or arrested.
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Her fingers still clung to the spokes, keeping one wheel out of action.
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Schyns has re-invented the old idea of a wheel with unbalanced spokes.
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Twenty four spokes slide over a fixed cam, so that as they move they change length and unbalance the wheel.