Wired

ppl. a. [f. WIRE sb. or v. + v. + -ED.]

  1.  Supported, strengthened or stiffened with wire.

1413.  Churchw. Acc. St. Michael’s, Oxford (MS.). Pro xiiii libris de wyred candel iis. xi.d.

1480.  in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeol. Jrnl. (1913), Oct., 85. Paied y^e same John for wyred candell at Cristmas v^d.

1654.  Webster, Appius & Virg., V. ii. He that would tame a Lion, doth not use the goad or wierd whip, but a sweet voice.

1844.  Noad, Electricity (ed. 2), 88. The box contains a reel round which the wired string is wound.

1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ Valerie’s Fate, iv. A lovely bouquet came for me—not a nasty wired affair, but just a lot of loose flowers.

1908.  Rosenhain, Glass Manuf., 27. In wired plate glass, however, an entire layer of wire netting is interposed between two layers of glass.

  2.  Furnished with or consisting of a wire fence or netting for confinement or protection.

1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, III. lxxv. 348. It [sc. a captive bird] … with meditating eyes, first surveys, and then attempts, its wired canopy.

1816.  in J. Scott, Vis. Paris, xv. (ed. 5), 237. The lower shelves only are protected by doors and wired frames.

1820.  Shelley, Witch Atl., xvi. As bats at the wired window of a dairy, They beat their vans.

1855.  Poultry Chron., III. 508. A moveable house and wired-in run which … is tenanted by a pair of Bantams.

1880.  W. Carnegie, Pract. Trap., 43. Traps … placed round a wired pheasant inclosure ought to be effective.

1903.  T. F. Dale, Fox-hunting in Shires, 21. A hunting crowd melts away … when the country is open. A wired district, however, will soon bring them together again.

1918.  Daily Mail, 12 Aug., 2/6. The troops … held up by deep gullies and wired woods.

1919.  A. J. Bott, in Blackw. Mag., June, 831/1. Soon all of them would be driving along the wired-over, sandy road to the coast.

  3.  Fastened or secured with wire.

  Wired on, designating a kind of tire that is secured to the wheel-rim by means of wire.

  In first quot., Contained in a bottle having a wired cork.

1798.  Lady Hunter, in Sir M. Hunter’s Jrnl., 19 Sept. (1894), 119. Had Majors Wemyss and Gordon to eat cold tongue and drink wired porter … at twelve.

1850.  H. Melville, White Jacket, II. xlvi. 308. The Surgeon stalked over the side, the wired skeleton carried in his wake by his cot-boy.

1865.  Athenæum, 9 Dec., 803/1. Birch wine,… the native impetuosity of which had to be restrained by wired corks.

1897.  A. C. Pemberton, et al., Complete Cyclist, iii. 82. The most suitable rim for any kind of wired-on tyre is the ‘Fairbanks.’

  4.  Of a horse’s foot (see WIRE v. 4).

1614.  Markham, Cheap Husb., I. i. 3. Chuse him [i.e., a horse] that is … strong ioynted, and hollow houes, of which the long is best, if they be not wierd.

1696.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3211/4. A Chesnut Mare Colt, two years old,… the hind feet and one before white, wired behind.

1864.  E. Mayhew, Horse Managem., 463. Where the heels have become ‘wired in.’

  5.  Croquet. (See WIRE v. 5.)

1868.  Chamb. Encycl., X. 485/2. A Wired Ball is one which cannot be croqued, by reason of the leg of the hoop intervening.