Definition of "wiredraw" in English

verb

1. (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

   • 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.