wiredraw

American  

[wahyuhr-draw] / ˈwaɪərˌdrɔ /

verb (used with object)

wiredrew, wiredrawn, wiredrawing

1. to draw (metal) out into wire, especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter in a succession of dies.

2. to draw out to great length, in quantity or time; stretch out to excess.

3. to strain unwarrantably, as in meaning.

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wiredraw British  

/ ˈwaɪəˌdrɔː /

verb

1. to convert (metal) into wire by drawing through successively smaller dies

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Other Word Forms

• wiredrawer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of wiredraw

1590–1600; back formation from wiredrawer; see wire, drawer

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wiredrawing wiredrawn

Today its furnaces, blooming, billet, rolling and wiredrawing mills, its machine shops and aluminum plants cover 2 7 square miles.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for the late design, Mr Coleman's letters, for aught I know, are the best evidence; and what they discover, without wiredrawing their sense, or malicious glosses, all men of reason conclude credible.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

The remarkable improvement in wiredrawing which has been made in Birmingham, Vienna, and Nuremberg, of late years, has rendered these high tensions of far easier attainment than they would have been earlier in the century.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call ‘getting under way’?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

The other letter consists of the usual wiredrawn argument for fatalism.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He fails to make it either straightforward or appropriate, and declines into the super-subtle or wiredrawn.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe