wiredrawing

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A form of wiredraw — To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.

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Meanings

nounwiredrawing (plural wiredrawings)

plural wiredrawings

  1. gerundgerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
    1 more example

    Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.

    1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 58
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wiredraw

Origin

From wiredraw + -ing.

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APA

wiredrawing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiredrawing

MLA

“wiredrawing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiredrawing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wiredrawing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiredrawing.

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