wire-drawing

Turn, then, thy sharp, wire-drawing, lawyer-like ingenuity to the same task — make up my history as though thou wert shaping the blundering allegations of some blue-bonneted, hard-headed client, into a condescendence of facts and circumstances, and thou shalt be, not my Apollo — QUID TIBI CUM

Redgauntlet 2008

Rousseau-like sentimentalizing and wire-drawing; and rather more healthful carelessness of effect.

Villette 2003

There are plants that produce barbed wire, wire-drawing machines, and machine tools.

Castro Speaks at 36th Moncada Anniversary 1989

There are plants that produce barbed wire, wire-drawing machines, and machine tools.

36TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS 1989

She realized it was the more quiet alternative to knocking and scrambled through the gauzy white curtains which acted as an effective mosquito netting in a world whose wire-drawing technique did not yet extend to window screens.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Before that time the chief industry had been wire-drawing, but this trade began to decrease about the end of the 18th century, just as the linen trade was becoming important.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The first wire-drawing machine is said to have been invented by a workman at Nuremberg, but it was not until two centuries later that the drawing-mills were introduced into

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

In all the diagrams taken from this valve motion there is seen the clear, full upper line showing an abundant admission of steam without any wire-drawing, and also the distinctly marked points where "cut-off" or "suppression" and where "release" takes place, showing the rapid action of the valves at those points.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

It is generally assumed that the first wire-drawing machines were made about 1360 in Germany; they were not used in England until about 1560.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

It seems as though there were some kind of work that corresponded to wire-drawing, earlier than its supposed introduction, for a petition was sent to King

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison