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Wiredrawing

WIREDRAWING

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ppr.
1.
Drawing a metal into wire.
2.
Drawing to a great length or fineness.

Definition 2024


wiredrawing

wiredrawing

English

Verb

wiredrawing

  1. present participle of wiredraw

Noun

wiredrawing (plural wiredrawings)

  1. The stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
    • Thomas Carlyle
      Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings []