wire linen.
/ˈwʌɪə ˌlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈwaɪ(ə)r ˌlaɪn/ 1. A fishing line of metal wire (now chiefly used in deep-sea fishing). Also as a mass noun.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > line of metal wire
wire line1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 103/1 Tackles belonging to an Angler... Lines, of which there are several sorts, and of diverse making: as, Silk Lines,..Wire Lines.
1706 R. Howlett Anglers Sure Guide xix. 14 Some use well Neal'd Wire-Lines of several sizes, both to angle for some Fish, and dap with for others.
1918 C. Garnett tr. A. Chekhov Witch & Other Stories 96 I fish with a hook and with a wire line, and set creels, and when the ice comes I catch with a net.
1953 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 16 Apr. 21/1 A 40-foot shrimp trawl will be used to make drags, and snapper fishing will be done with wire lines in deep water.
1984 Miami Herald 6 Apr. f9/6 Boats are limited to four fishing lines... ‘We allow use of the kite rig but do not permit use of wireline.’
2000 S. Bannerot & W. Bannerot Cruiser's Handbk. Fishing (2004) iii. 68/1 Many experienced captains believe that wire lines negatively impact billfish strikes on other baits and lures.
2. In plural. Papermaking. Wire marks (see wire mark n. at wire n.1 Compounds 2a).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > wire- or chain-lines
wire mark1795
wire lines1819
chain-line1880
chain-mark1923
1801 Times 3 Apr. In which new paper,..the laying wire lines are also formed in a waved or curved shape.]
1819 J. Chitty Pract. Treat. Criminal Law II. 785 Instead of the bar-lines being straight and parallel to each other, as in paper in general, they were to be made curved or waiving, the wire lines to be laid in the same shape.
1858 Sotheby's Principia Typogr. III. 105 Owing to the leaves having been backed, the wire-lines could not be traced.
1954 Imago Mundi 11 93 The bunch of grapes watermark in the map of ‘1616’ is here reproduced photographically in a print which shows clearly both the chain lines and wire lines of the paper.
2002 Burlington Mag. Feb. 69/1 ‘Large Italian’ sketchbook, slightly toned laid paper without watermark, originally bound at the shorter edge; wirelines vertical.
3. A telegraph or telephone wire; a wire carrying electric signals. Now frequently attributive, esp. contrasted with wireless (cf. wireless adj. 2).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > line
wire1813
line1847
wire line1848
loop1863
landline1865
saddle wire1876
telephone line1877
concentric cable1888
Pupin cable1904
multiple twin1922
quad1922
twisted pair1923
star quad1927
music line1929
coaxial cable1934
coax1945
1848 G. M. Musgrave Parson, Pen, & Pencil I. iv. 153 After having quitted the station of Pontoise, we saw the wire lines of the electric telegraph which communicates with Paris.
1853 Times 9 Mar. 6/4 This..falls far below what would be expended on the winders, insulators, zincing, and straining posts absolutely necessary on a wire line.
1947 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 66 492/3 The necessary frequency space for wide-band operation usually is not justified economically for wire line operation.
1983 Mini-Micro Systems July 240/2 The fcc is currently examining applications from wire-line and non-wire-line carriers for licenses to provide cellular mobile phone service in 30 large u.s. cities.
1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 54/1 Video mail could be widely used throughout wireless as well as wire-line networks.
2008 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 27 Jan. p42 Bell system heirs like Verison still control the vast majority of local wireline services.
4. Oil Industry.
a. A cable for lowering and raising equipment in a well shaft.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment > devices for raising or lowering
oil derrick1863
bull-wheel1883
wire line1896
1896 U.S. Patent 569,157 1/2 A wire line for transmitting motion from a central source of power to the operating devices in an oil-well.
1916 A. B. Thompson Oil-field Devel. & Petroleum Mining x. 468 At each well a wire line can be led over the top derrick pulley and direct on to the pump.
1977 Offshore Engineer May 11/1 To prepare the well, the ‘Christmas tree’..is..replaced with a temporary single-pipe ram preventer which allows wireline tools to be introduced.
1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 60/3 Subsea Well services, a Dundee-based company established to develop a subsea wireline winch for well servicing.
b. An electric cable used to connect measuring devices in a well with indicating or recording instruments at the surface. Now frequently attributive in wireline log (log n.1 7d(a)).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > recording devices or parts of
tattle-tale1942
wire line1962
1962 U.S. Patent 3,068,400 4 Signals transmitted from the downhole tool over a cable employing a minimum number of wire lines.
1974 P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Pract. Man. xi. 279 The use of wireline logs for determining pore pressures is well documented.
1993 M. J. Pink Explor. & Appraisal Technol. Jan. 6/3 Modern wireline logs and production tests must supplement the regional geology and seismic knowledge.
2006 Science 19 May 1017/2 There is no evidence from core or from geophysical wireline logs for substantial tilting of the dikes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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