Word Meanings - WIREDRAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pass, or to draw off, through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. (more info) 1. To form into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense

Additional info about word: WIREDRAW

To pass, or to draw off, through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. (more info) 1. To form into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy. Dryden. 3. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument. Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice. Macaulay.

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• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• DRAW
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  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• FORCEPS
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• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• WET PLATE
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• LOW STEEL
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• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• CONTEMPLATE
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  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• NATURAL STEEL
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