wirern.
/ˈwʌɪərə/, U.S. /ˈwaɪ(ə)rər/ A person who wires (in various senses of the verb); (now) esp. a person whose job involves electrical wiring.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter using traps
snarer1597
trapper1768
nooser1859
wirer1864
trappist1880
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > processes involved in > one who
little master1806
pouncer1868
planker?1881
wirer?1881
stiffener1892
pelt-shaker1902
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who cork bottles
corker?1881
wirer1901
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraph operator
telegrapher1794
telegraphist1817
puncher1876
key worker1884
sounder1887
cabler1890
space-telegrapher1899
Marconist?1900
key man1901
wireless operator1902
wirer1916
ham1919
1824 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Mar. 668 The nobility and gentry..will now be the only wirers [sc. setters of snares] in the country.
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 24 Wirer, pickpocket.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 76 The nightly wirer of their innocent hare.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 74 Straw Hat and Bonnet Making:..Presser, Liner, Wirer.
1901 Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 9/1 Mineral Water Trade.—Wanted..wirers, and bottlers.
1916 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 264/1 The wirers..began..to panic terribly, in code.
1953 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 53 1225/3 Of those who failed to meet the visual standard,..38 percent were wirers, and 43 percent were assemblers.
1978 R. Doliner On Edge xv. 213 He had the name of the wirer: Elias... If they'd brought in Elias, it was to wire explosives.
1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 15 Nov. f1 Theriault, 34, a former barmaid, started work as a wirer of electronic industrial-system control panels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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