单词 | wire-weaving |
释义 | > as lemmaswire-weaving c. Objective with agent nouns (applied to persons or to implements) and verbal nouns, as wire clipper (usually in plural), wire-monger, wire-nippers, wire-weaver, wire-weaving, etc. ΚΠ 1479 in H. Stewart Worshipful Company Gold & Silver Wyre-drawers (1891) 16 The petition of the Wyre-drawers, and Chape-makers that they may be made into one Company, and called Wyre-mongers. 1699 E. Hatton Comes commercii iv. 266 Girdlers, Point-makers, Pursers, Glovers, Joiners, Painters, Card-makers, Wire-mongers [etc.]. ?1774 New Compl. Guide City of London (ed. 14) 202/2 Butler and Waite, wire weavers, Saffron street. 1794 E. Donovan Instr. collecting & preserving Subjects Nat. Hist. 5 Large specimens will require a small scoop; a pair of nippers, to assist in taking out the entrails; wire clippers, small awls [etc.]. 1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 437 For this purpose make use of a small pair of wire nippers, the points of which are flattened, and bound round with silk or thread. 1884 Times 20 Oct. 11/4 The wire-weaving branch is dull, and there is not much doing in netting. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 109 That fresh bunch of campers..had a pair of wire clippers in the whip socket. 1988 Med. Anthropol. Q. 2 208 Men employed by the same manufacturer but in a different process, wire-weaving, reach ‘the full duration of human life’. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. f3/4 Developed..in collaboration with a wire weaver from one of Cape Town's poorest townships, the steel wire tables and stools unite contemporary design with African handicraft. < as lemmas |
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