| 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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