wire-drawv.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪədrɔː/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌdrɔ/,

/ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌdrɑ/

Forms: see wire n.¹ and draw v.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wire n.¹, draw v.

Etymology: < wire n.¹ + draw v., after wire-drawer n. With sense 1c compare earlier wire-drawing n. 2.

Now rare.

a. transitive. To draw out (a material thing) to an elongated form, as though drawing wire; to stretch, elongate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen > by drawing out

drawa1398

to draw abroada1400

to draw out1484

wire-draw1598

rope1798

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Stringare..to wyre-draw a thing.

1648 Hunting of Fox 23 To tug and wire-draw as Shoe-makers ordinarily do their leather between their hands and their teeth.

1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium 92 But loath I am to stretch mine eares so far, As if they wire-drawn, or tenter'd were.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 7 That Excrement..out of which, the Silk-worm wire-draws his clew.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 41 He never desisted from pulling his Beard, till he had wiredrawn it down to his feet.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 163 The bird..has been actually wire-drawn. It has grown all the hours you have neglected it, without anything to grow from.

2001 M. Canard & T. A. Volkovich in P. K. McEwen et al. Lacewings in Crop Environm. vii. 135/1 The eggs are deposited on the top of a more or less long pedicel constituted by wiredrawing a droplet of mucus.

b. transitive. Manufacturing Technology. To draw out (metal) into wire by the process of wire-drawing (wire-drawing n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > processes in wire-making

disgross1611

wire-draw1657

patent1922

1657 J. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Hist. Wonderful Things of Nature iv. xxvii. 118 That it [sc. gold] may be wire-drawn, and spun without silk, I need not approve of.

1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 96 Though out of a wedge of Gold one cannot immediately make a Ring, yet by..Wyre-drawing that Wedge by degrees,..That thing may easily be effected.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Wiredraw. 1. To spin into wire.

1854 Debow's Rev. Oct. 383 The invention of those machines used to wiredraw gold.

1940 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 175 343 It is found that in the 29% alloy..cold work by wire-drawing the alloy initiates the γ–α change at room temperature.

c. transitive. To cause (steam or water) to pass through a small aperture into a larger space, thereby reducing its pressure; to throttle.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > fit with steam engines [verb (transitive)] > cause steam to pass through aperture

wire-draw1802

1744 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. II. 522 It must not be taken for a general Rule, that Wire-drawing the Water, as it is call'd, is always a Fault.

1802 R. Trevithick & A. Vivian Brit. Patent 2599 This passage has a throttle valve..to wiredraw the steam.

1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xx. 462 In passing into an engine, steam is ‘wire drawn’ (or throttled) at the stop valve, from 180 lb. per sq. in...to 150 lb. per sq. in.

1989 R. L. Hills Power from Steam vi. 111 Woolf recommended opening the inlet valve slowly at first to wire-draw the steam.

†2.

a. transitive. To draw or prolong to a great length; to protract excessively, spin out. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong

lengOE

drawOE

teec1200

forlengtha1300

lengtha1300

drivec1300

tarryc1320

proloynec1350

continuec1380

to draw alonga1382

longa1382

dretch1393

conservea1398

to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400

prorogue1419

prolongc1425

aroomc1440

prorogate?a1475

protend?a1475

dilate1489

forlong1496

relong1523

to draw out1542

sustentate1542

linger1543

defer1546

pertract1548

propagate1548

protract1548

linger1550

lengthen1555

train1556

detract?a1562

to make forth (long, longer)1565

stretch1568

extend1574

extenuate1583

dree1584

wire-draw1598

to spin out1603

trail1604

disabridge1605

produce1605

continuate1611

out-length1617

spin1629

to eke out1641

producta1670

prolongate1671

drawl1694

drag1697

perennate1698

string1867

perennialize1898

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > extend or prolong

to draw out1542

to drive out1572

wire-draw1598

overspina1643

to spin out1673

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Puntare,..to wyre-draw any matter.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tardiver, to linger, foreslow, slacke, delay, wire~draw it.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. iv. i. 299 As an hungry Surgeon often doth prolong & wierdraw his cure so long as there is any hope of pay.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 40 His torments were so lengthened, and wire~drawne, to the end Christians might feele themselves dye.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xl. 332 I prorogate,..wyre-draw, and shift off the Time of giving a Definitive Sentence.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. iii. 42 They may contrive to fill up the middle and end of the evening, by wire-drawing the comments afforded by the beginning.

1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 420/1 A lamentable proneness to wiredraw his plots; to protract the interest of his narrative, until it ceases to be interest.

b. transitive. To force or stretch (words, meaning, etc.) by subtle argument, often so as to distort the original intention; to reshape to suit one's purpose. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]

crooka1340

deprave1382

pervertc1390

strainc1449

drawc1450

miswrest?a1475

bewrya1522

wry?1521

to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529

writhea1533

wrest1533

invert1534

wring?1541

depravate1548

rack1548

violent1549

wrench1549

train1551

wreathe1556

throw1558

detorta1575

shuffle1589

wriggle1593

distortc1595

to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599

twine1600

wire-draw1610

monstrify1617

screw1628

corrupt1630

gloss1638

torture1648

force1662

vex1678

refract1700

warp1717

to put a force upon1729

twist1821

ply1988

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 288 Such as would proue this Iurisdiction from certaine texts of Scripture, as:..oraui pro te Petre, &c. And such like which are wire-drawen to countenance this Papall Iurisdiction.

1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 530 He needes not wiredraw his conscience, till it fits every State passage.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Aij Where I have been wrongfully accus'd, and my Sense wire-drawn into Blasphemy or Bawdry.

1765 J. Wesley Let. 14 May Do not wrest, and wiredraw, and colour my words.

1831 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1909) II. 440 The rough and tumble old fellows, Bacons, Miltons, and Burkes don't wire-draw.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 155 Our old divines..wire-drew their text, in the anxiety to evolve out of the words the fulness of the meaning.

1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible iii. 115 Questions..which only tend to wiredraw the judgment.

c. intransitive. To eke out one's means; to be parsimonious. Also transitive to force (a person) to pay beyond his or her means. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)]

spare1377

to lick one's knifec1400

chincha1425

pincha1425

stick1533

nig1559

to make pottage of a flintc1576

niggard1596

wretcha1598

niggardize1606

wire-draw1616

screw1820

skincha1825

scrimp1848

stinge1937

to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942

penny-pinch1945

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)]

ransom?a1425

to poll and pill1528

exact1534

bloodsuck?1541

extort1561

rack1576

flay1584

shave1606

wire-draw1616

punisha1626

sponge1631

squeeze1639

screwa1643

to screw up1655

bleed1680

torture1687

to screw down1725

to shake down1872

to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918

to bleed white1935

rent1956

1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. I4 Thou hadst land and thousands, thou spendst, and flungst away, and yet it flows in double: I purchasde, wrung, and wierdraw'd, for my wealth, lost, and was cozend.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 162 Seeing us wire-draw and castabout every way, rather then we will part with anything.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Wire-draw, to screw, over-reach, or deal hard with.

d. transitive. To influence or persuade (a person); to prise (something) out of a person; to extract or introduce subtly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > lead, induce, bring, or get by cunning

wilea1400

wire-draw1622

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > by subtle or underhand means

undermine1457

compass1563

cozen1599

wire-draw1622

subinduce1646

to get at ——1780

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. vi. 146 I began to wyre-draw him, and to question him somewhat more particularly, touching his masters disposition, his condition, and qualitie.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 46 The Prince of Orange,..to wyer-draw the whole business out of the King, takes upon him to have been privy to the plot.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 482 It was no hard matter for the Houses of Parliament to wire-draw him by degrees to such Condescensions.

1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 173 Among M^r. Comm^y's 5 Arguments..is wire-drawn in a Sly ill look't insinuation.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §26. 138 I grant that Matter very fit to be taken Notice of in the History of that Time; but then..truly, as it was, and not only, as here is done, to wire-draw a Reflection from it.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliii. 303 If..I..suspected, that she sought only to gain time, in order to wire-draw me into a consent.

e. transitive. To shape into. Obsolete.Sometimes with the implication of distortion: cf. sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong > into

wire-draw1648

1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 135 In conclusion, after a tedious debate, the desires of the Citizens were referred to a Committee of the House to be wyer-drawne into an Ordinance.

1756 Connoisseur No. 118. ⁋8 [He] wire-drawed the books of Moses into a complete system of Natural Philosophy.

f. transitive. To draw out into something less substantial; to stretch out thinly or weakly; to attenuate, over-refine. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > weaken [verb (transitive)]

water1529

emasculate1608

wire-draw1660

to water down1832

to write down1876

sanitize1934

pasteurize1951

saccharinize1971

1660 J. Gauden Μεγαλεια Θεου 18 The superfluity of mans wit and eloquence glories to find out many inventions, definitions and distinctions, even in plain things; wire~drawing religion into fine threads.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 313 Having wiredrawn the Article concerning the Son of God into infinite Controversies and Disputes.

1796 C. Lamb Let. 13 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 30 (Sonnets and all) they won't make a thousand lines as I propose completing 'em, and the substance must be wire-drawn.

1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xiii The school of Pope in verse ended by wire-drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wire-draw
释义	wire-drawv. Brit. /ˈwʌɪədrɔː/, U.S. /ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌdrɔ/, /ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌdrɑ/ Forms: see wire n.¹ and draw v. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wire n.¹, draw v. Etymology: < wire n.¹ + draw v., after wire-drawer n. With sense 1c compare earlier wire-drawing n. 2. Now rare. 1. a. transitive. To draw out (a material thing) to an elongated form, as though drawing wire; to stretch, elongate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen > by drawing out drawa1398 to draw abroada1400 to draw out1484 wire-draw1598 rope1798 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Stringare..to wyre-draw a thing. 1648 Hunting of Fox 23 To tug and wire-draw as Shoe-makers ordinarily do their leather between their hands and their teeth. 1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium 92 But loath I am to stretch mine eares so far, As if they wire-drawn, or tenter'd were. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 7 That Excrement..out of which, the Silk-worm wire-draws his clew. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 41 He never desisted from pulling his Beard, till he had wiredrawn it down to his feet. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 163 The bird..has been actually wire-drawn. It has grown all the hours you have neglected it, without anything to grow from. 2001 M. Canard & T. A. Volkovich in P. K. McEwen et al. Lacewings in Crop Environm. vii. 135/1 The eggs are deposited on the top of a more or less long pedicel constituted by wiredrawing a droplet of mucus. b. transitive. Manufacturing Technology. To draw out (metal) into wire by the process of wire-drawing (wire-drawing n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > processes in wire-making disgross1611 wire-draw1657 patent1922 1657 J. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Hist. Wonderful Things of Nature iv. xxvii. 118 That it [sc. gold] may be wire-drawn, and spun without silk, I need not approve of. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 96 Though out of a wedge of Gold one cannot immediately make a Ring, yet by..Wyre-drawing that Wedge by degrees,..That thing may easily be effected. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Wiredraw. 1. To spin into wire. 1854 Debow's Rev. Oct. 383 The invention of those machines used to wiredraw gold. 1940 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 175 343 It is found that in the 29% alloy..cold work by wire-drawing the alloy initiates the γ–α change at room temperature. c. transitive. To cause (steam or water) to pass through a small aperture into a larger space, thereby reducing its pressure; to throttle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > fit with steam engines [verb (transitive)] > cause steam to pass through aperture wire-draw1802 1744 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. II. 522 It must not be taken for a general Rule, that Wire-drawing the Water, as it is call'd, is always a Fault. 1802 R. Trevithick & A. Vivian Brit. Patent 2599 This passage has a throttle valve..to wiredraw the steam. 1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xx. 462 In passing into an engine, steam is ‘wire drawn’ (or throttled) at the stop valve, from 180 lb. per sq. in...to 150 lb. per sq. in. 1989 R. L. Hills Power from Steam vi. 111 Woolf recommended opening the inlet valve slowly at first to wire-draw the steam. †2. a. transitive. To draw or prolong to a great length; to protract excessively, spin out. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong lengOE drawOE teec1200 forlengtha1300 lengtha1300 drivec1300 tarryc1320 proloynec1350 continuec1380 to draw alonga1382 longa1382 dretch1393 conservea1398 to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400 prorogue1419 prolongc1425 aroomc1440 prorogate?a1475 protend?a1475 dilate1489 forlong1496 relong1523 to draw out1542 sustentate1542 linger1543 defer1546 pertract1548 propagate1548 protract1548 linger1550 lengthen1555 train1556 detract?a1562 to make forth (long, longer)1565 stretch1568 extend1574 extenuate1583 dree1584 wire-draw1598 to spin out1603 trail1604 disabridge1605 produce1605 continuate1611 out-length1617 spin1629 to eke out1641 producta1670 prolongate1671 drawl1694 drag1697 perennate1698 string1867 perennialize1898 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > extend or prolong to draw out1542 to drive out1572 wire-draw1598 overspina1643 to spin out1673 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Puntare,..to wyre-draw any matter. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tardiver, to linger, foreslow, slacke, delay, wire~draw it. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. iv. i. 299 As an hungry Surgeon often doth prolong & wierdraw his cure so long as there is any hope of pay. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 40 His torments were so lengthened, and wire~drawne, to the end Christians might feele themselves dye. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xl. 332 I prorogate,..wyre-draw, and shift off the Time of giving a Definitive Sentence. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. iii. 42 They may contrive to fill up the middle and end of the evening, by wire-drawing the comments afforded by the beginning. 1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 420/1 A lamentable proneness to wiredraw his plots; to protract the interest of his narrative, until it ceases to be interest. b. transitive. To force or stretch (words, meaning, etc.) by subtle argument, often so as to distort the original intention; to reshape to suit one's purpose. Also intransitive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)] crooka1340 deprave1382 pervertc1390 strainc1449 drawc1450 miswrest?a1475 bewrya1522 wry?1521 to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529 writhea1533 wrest1533 invert1534 wring?1541 depravate1548 rack1548 violent1549 wrench1549 train1551 wreathe1556 throw1558 detorta1575 shuffle1589 wriggle1593 distortc1595 to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599 twine1600 wire-draw1610 monstrify1617 screw1628 corrupt1630 gloss1638 torture1648 force1662 vex1678 refract1700 warp1717 to put a force upon1729 twist1821 ply1988 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 288 Such as would proue this Iurisdiction from certaine texts of Scripture, as:..oraui pro te Petre, &c. And such like which are wire-drawen to countenance this Papall Iurisdiction. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 530 He needes not wiredraw his conscience, till it fits every State passage. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Aij Where I have been wrongfully accus'd, and my Sense wire-drawn into Blasphemy or Bawdry. 1765 J. Wesley Let.* 14 May Do not wrest, and wiredraw, and colour my words. 1831 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1909) II. 440 The rough and tumble old fellows, Bacons, Miltons, and Burkes don't wire-draw. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 155 Our old divines..wire-drew their text, in the anxiety to evolve out of the words the fulness of the meaning. 1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible iii. 115 Questions..which only tend to wiredraw the judgment. c. intransitive. To eke out one's means; to be parsimonious. Also transitive to force (a person) to pay beyond his or her means. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)] spare1377 to lick one's knifec1400 chincha1425 pincha1425 stick1533 nig1559 to make pottage of a flintc1576 niggard1596 wretcha1598 niggardize1606 wire-draw1616 screw1820 skincha1825 scrimp1848 stinge1937 to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942 penny-pinch1945 the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)] ransom?a1425 to poll and pill1528 exact1534 bloodsuck?1541 extort1561 rack1576 flay1584 shave1606 wire-draw1616 punisha1626 sponge1631 squeeze1639 screwa1643 to screw up1655 bleed1680 torture1687 to screw down1725 to shake down1872 to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918 to bleed white1935 rent1956 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. I4 Thou hadst land and thousands, thou spendst, and flungst away, and yet it flows in double: I purchasde, wrung, and wierdraw'd, for my wealth, lost, and was cozend. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 162 Seeing us wire-draw and castabout every way, rather then we will part with anything. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Wire-draw, to screw, over-reach, or deal hard with. d. transitive. To influence or persuade (a person); to prise (something) out of a person; to extract or introduce subtly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > lead, induce, bring, or get by cunning wilea1400 wire-draw1622 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > by subtle or underhand means undermine1457 compass1563 cozen1599 wire-draw1622 subinduce1646 to get at ——1780 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. vi. 146 I began to wyre-draw him, and to question him somewhat more particularly, touching his masters disposition, his condition, and qualitie. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 46 The Prince of Orange,..to wyer-draw the whole business out of the King, takes upon him to have been privy to the plot. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 482 It was no hard matter for the Houses of Parliament to wire-draw him by degrees to such Condescensions. 1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 173 Among M^r. Comm^y's 5 Arguments..is wire-drawn in a Sly ill look't insinuation. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §26. 138 I grant that Matter very fit to be taken Notice of in the History of that Time; but then..truly, as it was, and not only, as here is done, to wire-draw a Reflection from it. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliii. 303 If..I..suspected, that she sought only to gain time, in order to wire-draw me into a consent. e. transitive. To shape into. Obsolete.Sometimes with the implication of distortion: cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong > into wire-draw1648 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 135 In conclusion, after a tedious debate, the desires of the Citizens were referred to a Committee of the House to be wyer-drawne into an Ordinance. 1756 Connoisseur No. 118. ⁋8 [He] wire-drawed the books of Moses into a complete system of Natural Philosophy. f. transitive. To draw out into something less substantial; to stretch out thinly or weakly; to attenuate, over-refine. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > weaken [verb (transitive)] water1529 emasculate1608 wire-draw1660 to water down1832 to write down1876 sanitize1934 pasteurize1951 saccharinize1971 1660 J. Gauden Μεγαλεια Θεου 18 The superfluity of mans wit and eloquence glories to find out many inventions, definitions and distinctions, even in plain things; wire~drawing religion into fine threads. 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 313 Having wiredrawn the Article concerning the Son of God into infinite Controversies and Disputes. 1796 C. Lamb Let. 13 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 30 (Sonnets and all) they won't make a thousand lines as I propose completing 'em, and the substance must be wire-drawn. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xiii The school of Pope in verse ended by wire-drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1598
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