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Old 12-Jan-2005, 10:47
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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.
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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.

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

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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

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Can you give some context? Where did you come across this?
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Old 13-Jan-2005, 14:20
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Default Re: Idiom "keep sproke"

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.

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

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'Keep stroke' exists, from rowing.
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'Keep stroke' exists, from rowing.
Ah, that's probably it.

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