Crossword-Solution: SPOKING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The two blood chestnuts (for it was those Mike harnessed, having a groom’s dislike to take a racer out of training) were surrounded by about twenty people: some at their heads; some patting them on the flanks; some spoking the wheels; and a few, the more cautious of the party, standing at a respectable distance and offering advice.

Look here, my son, I did think of spoking you all round, but I'm beginning to think it'll be better to keep on at you this side, and then take you out of your mould sidewise like.

Your Lordschip knawis weall the man: he hes spoking with your Lordschip: I thought yow content with him.

And we, poor things, at once her instruments and butts, stumble about her business, thinking it ours, setting each other up, bringing each other low, spoking each other's wheels and all the time, wise in our own conceit, basking in the sunshine of our fine free-will, like lack-brains toasting their shanks before an empty cage.