| 单词 | white wire | 
| 释义 | white wiren. Now historical.   Wire of a silvery colour; wire made of or covered with white metal.In early use probably iron wire coated with tin; cf. white iron n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > 			[noun]		 > wire > types of silver wire14.. white wire1463 virginal wire1662 pin-wire1674 binding wire1767 pinion wire1767 electric wire1819 music wire1823 gutta-percha-wire1876 No. eight1876 picture wire1876 number eight1952 microwire1953 plated wire1960 nanowire1990 1463–5    Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV 		(Electronic ed.)	 Parl. Apr. 1463 §22. m. 7  				Cardes for wolle or whitewyre. 1587    L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges 		(1596)	 274  				Some doe ring them [sc. hogs] with red wyar..Others doe put rings of yron, some with horse nailes or strong white wyar, in the groine of their snoutes. 1678    London Gaz. No. 1302/1  				No Iron Threed (commonly called White Wyer) nor Cards for Wooll, nor Card-Wyer, nor Iron-Wyer for making of Wooll-Cards, shall be Imported. 1772    T. Nugent tr.  J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II.  v. vi. 339  				Two scapularies ornamented with tinsel raised-work, and quills of white wire which looked like silver. 1806    European Mag. & London Rev. July 15/2  				Blanch iron wire, commonly called white wire. a1877    E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2788/2  				Culinary and table utensils are extensively made from white wire. 1920    Trans. Liverpool Engin. Soc. 41 186  				Blanche or white wire is..mentioned in a list of manufactures whose importation into England was prohibited by an Act of Edward III [sic] in the year 1463. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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