wiredraw

== English == === Alternative forms === wire-draw wyredraw (obsolete) === Etymology === From wire +‎ draw. === Verb === wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn) (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose. , I.56: I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.