Idiom "keep sproke"

I'm looking for the meaning of "keep sproke". Sproke is no bad spelling for spoke, but it means something concering gears. I haven't found it in your idiom dictionary - hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance

Londe

[RonBee]

The word spoke is not just the past tense of speak, but it also a noun meaning a part of a bicycle. (A spoke is part of a wheel.) I suspect that it is a misspelling, as I have never heard of a sproke before. I have no idea what it (the phrase) might mean.

[Marylin]

Originally Posted by Londe

I'm looking for the meaning of "keep sproke". Sproke is no bad spelling for spoke, but it means something concering gears. I haven't found it in your idiom dictionary - hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance

Londe

Sproke can mean Sprite and Coke mixed together...sometimes we call those mixed drinks "swamp water".
In automotive vocabulary there is a thing called a stroke. Couldn't find anything else, no idiom.

[Tdol]

Onelook.com couldn'tfind it:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=sproke&ls=a

[twostep]

Originally Posted by Londe

I'm looking for the meaning of "keep sproke". Sproke is no bad spelling for spoke, but it means something concering gears. I haven't found it in your idiom dictionary - hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance

Londe

Can you give some context? Where did you come across this?

Thanks for all the help and sorry for the late reply.

The problem is, that there is no cotext to it. It has been written as a dedication on a autograph card (from Anastacia). Quite possibly that she dispelled it or wrote it illegible.

Edit:
It seems that there is the expression "to keep stroke" which means something like to keep pace, possible that this is the answer.

[Tdol]

'Keep stroke' exists, from rowing.

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by tdol

'Keep stroke' exists, from rowing.

Ah, that's probably it.