a person who sets or uses wires to snare rabbits and similar animals
wirer in American English
(ˈwaɪrər)
noun
a person who wires
wirer in American English
(ˈwaiᵊrər)
noun
1.
a person who wires
2.
a person who uses wire to snare game
Word origin
[1855–60; wire + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: keyword, kickoff, lavabo, output, pickup-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)