Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WIRE-DRAW, v.t. [wire and draw.]

1. To draw a metal into wire, which is done by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
2. To draw into length. – Arbuthnot.
3. To draw by art or violence. My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy. – Dryden.
4. To draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, wiredraw an argument.