spoky, a. Now rare.
(ˈspəʊkɪ)
Also 6–7 spokie (6 -ye), 9 spokey; 7 spoaky, 8 -ey.
[f. spoke n. + -y.]
† 1. Bot. a. Having or consisting of parts arranged radially like the spokes of a wheel; radiate, radiated. Obs.
| 1551 Turner Herbal i. C vj, Dyll..hath many smal braunches comming furth of a great stalke,..wyth a spokye top as fenell hath. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 270 The floures..grow in round spokie tuffets or rundels, at the toppe of the stalkes. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xix. 24 With a spokie pannicle, somwhat thicker and greater than the common Couch Grasse. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden l, The white Flowers grow in spoaky roundels. 1672 J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 70 The Flowers are Blew, small, and many, growing in spoky tufts at the top. 1713 Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 183 Its Leaves very like the Jagged Sow-Thistles, with Spoakey Tufts of Purple Flowers. |
† b. Resembling wheel-spokes in form and arrangement. Obs.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 274 In the top thereof it beareth certaine little heads inuironed with spokie leaues, and those disposed round in manner of a starre. |
2. Of a wheel: Having or provided with spokes.
| 1832 Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 178 That small, spokey, but rimless wheel. |