Vocabulary : Wire-puller to Wiring

Wire-puller : One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
Wire-pulling : The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
wires : In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.
Wire-tailed : Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
Wirework : Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

Wire-worker : One who manufactures articles from wire.
Wireworm : One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub. ;; A galleyworm.
Wire-wound gun : A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound with wire under tension to insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire.
Wiriness : The quality of being wiry.
Wiring : The act of one that wires anything. ;; The wires or conductors employed in a system of electric distribution. ;; of Wire

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