Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of wirewove (all senses)
Take one or more sheets of 'wire-wove roofing' cut to the size of the picture and fasten on to a wooden frame or stretcher by means of brass screws and copper nails.
2013, A. P. Laurie, The Painter's Methods and Materials2 more examples
It is from the great book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of black-letter, or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have vernturously essayed to read a chapter to the public.
1814, Sir Walter Scott, WaverleyAbdul's wife, Tilkolo, with whom I enjoyed a joking relationship, brought Pauline three hearthstones, and Abdul found us an old wire-wove bed base to go with the straw and sacking paillasse we had carried from Kabala.
2011, Michael Jackson, Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want, page 63
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