spokewise

[ spohk-wahyz ]

adverb

1. in relation to, away from, or toward a center, as the spokes spoke on a wheel:

   The projections were arranged spokewise around the core.

adjective

1. having the parts placed as the spokes spoke on a wheel; radiating from a center:

   a spokewise structure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spokewise¹

First recorded in 1835–45; spoke ² + -wise

Example Sentences

Broad, clean streets were much in evidence, the principal ones running spokewise to converge at the exact center of the wheel-like pattern.

From Project Gutenberg

In this case the magnets, which can be made of a couple of dozen turns of fine insulated wire round a 1/8-in soft iron bar, should be arranged spokewise round the compass case, and care must be taken that all the cores are wound in the same direction, so as to have the same polarity.

From Project Gutenberg

My quilt and my pelisse and my cloak were spread out so that I might lie spokewise, with my feet towards the central fire. 

From Project Gutenberg