spoking machine (spoking mas hen")

An apparatus for adjusting the spokes of a wheel to give them all the same inclination, and thus give the wheel a uniform dish. spole (spol), [A var. of spool.] 1. An obsoor dialectal form of spool. Specifically 2. The small wheel near the distaff in the common spinning-wheel. Then fly the spoles , the rapid axles glow, And slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below. Darwin, Loves of the Plants, ii. 103.