a. Now rare. Also 6–7 spokie (6 -ye), 9. spokey; 7 spoaky, 8 -ey. [f. SPOKE sb. + -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. 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.
