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Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Cage :: Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..

Popper :: Popper (n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle..

Ductile :: Ductile (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads..

Loop :: Loop (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery..

Twire :: Twire (v. i.) To twinkle; to glance; to gleam.

Wire-drawer :: Wire-drawer (n.) One who draws metal into wire.

Blue Grass :: Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass..

Drawbench :: Drawbench (n.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench..

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury..

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging..

Hairpin :: Hairpin (n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women..

Puppet :: Puppet (n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.

Scratchbrush :: Scratchbrush (n.) A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Wire :: Wire (v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream..

Wire :: Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument..

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