wiredrawing

English

Etymology

From wiredraw +‎ -ing.

Noun

wiredrawing (plural wiredrawings)

1. gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
   • 1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 58:

     Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.

Verb

wiredrawing

1. present participle and gerund of wiredraw