Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which draws metal into wire.
  • noun Figuratively, one who spins out unduly; one who carries a matter into useless subtleties, with or without perversion of meaning.
  • noun A stingy, grasping person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who draws metal into wire.

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