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Keywords: Hub, Radial, Wheel, Rim, Rods
The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
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A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
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A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
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To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.
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An integral stanza in the poem that is a bicycle. Proof positive that there's strength in numbers, which should come as a relief to those embarking upon a spin in the London ferris wheel (sorry: the British Airways London Eye).
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See hub and spoke integration.
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the wire-like rods that run from the hub to the rim joining them.
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the thin rods of the wheelset.
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support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
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The part used to connect the hub and the rim and maintain a rigid wheel.
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the same as a stake, but laid circulary like spokes in a wheel.
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A radiating bar which accepts the forces within a wheel.
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The stretch between a hub and one of the group of consignees and/or consignors being served by the hub.
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radial reinforcement for wheel.
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A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface. The term originally referred to portions of a log which had been split lengthwise into four or six sections. The radial members of a wagon wheel were made by carving a spoke (from a log) into their finished shape.
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