单词 | black wire |
释义 | > as lemmasblack wire c. With modifying word denoting the form, colour, use, etc., as baling wire, black wire, insulated wire, small wire, etc.binding, electric, fencing, fuse, piano, telephone, white wire, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ a1525 (?1435) Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 183 Ne Cardwyre ne mystermannes wyre. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xviii. f. 116v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I [Iron] of such toughnesse, that it yeeldeth to the makyng of Claricord wire. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. xxvi. 24 They..bound her tender armes in twisted wire. 1654 F. W. Observ. in Fulke's Meteors (new ed.) 164 Though Gold be drawn into the smallest wire. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Superfine, very fine or thin; as Superfine Wire, Thread, Cards, &c. 1748 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 714 Cork'd, with a Staple of small Wire running through each Cork into the Water. 1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 906 Rolled or ‘black wire,’ (as it is sometimes called, to distinguish it from the bright, or drawn-wire). 1872 D. R. Locke Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby clvii. 503 Twas him wich conceeved the idea uv braidin small wire into the lashes uv nigger whips. 1922 Outing June 110/2 The time was now come..to get out..rope and baling wire. 2000 Sci. Amer. Jan. 66/1 The second critical element is the track, which is embedded with closely packed coils of insulated wire. < as lemmas |
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