The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPOKE
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More clues leading to the result SPOKE
- Gave talk, producing part of wheel
- Lead from SCART to stick in connector coming from hub
- Gave a lecture on The Wheel?
- Talked with son needing prod
- Rod gave a lecture
- Member coming from the centre made a speech?
- Close to Dallas, dig biker’s bar
- Piece of wheel, it’s said
- Articulated part of cycle
- Addressed some Pakistan-occupied Kashmir editors at first
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What does SPOKE mean?
SPOKE noun- A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
- A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- A rung of a ladder.
- A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
- One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
- To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
- To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
- To have a conversation.
- (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- To be able to communicate in a language.
- To utter.
- To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- (sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- To produce a sound; to sound.
- Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- To address; to accost; to speak to.