v. [Back-formation from next.] trans. To actuate or promote by wire-pulling. Hence Wire-pulled ppl. a.
1883. St. James’s Gaz., 28 Dec., 3/1. The whole company of wire-pulling and wire-pulled Radicals.
1888. R. F. D. Palgrave, in Engl. Hist. Rev., Oct., 789. The king was but the crank by which Wildman wire-pulled the English royalists.
1896. Sir W. Harcourt in Westm. Gaz., 8 May, 7/1. They knew that the agitation was conducted, wire-pulled, and financed from the office of the Chartered Company in Capetown.
