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Refers to the thin rods connecting the wheel rim to the hub.

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Why are spoke nipples called nipples?

From the Online Etymology Dictionary: Nyppell, dating from the 1530s, for a protuberance of a mammalian breast where the milk duct terminates in females, as an alteration of Neble from the 1520s, its …
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