[f. WIRE sb. + MAN sb.1]

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  † 1.  One who makes or works in wire. Obs.

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1547–8.  in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 31. To Iohn west wyerman for ixlb of wyer.

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1616.  B. Jonson, Masques, Love restored. Fortie other deuices I had, of Wyre-men.

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1668.  Churchw. Acc. St. Margaret’s, Westminster (Nichols, 1797), 70. To Christopher Davison, wyreman, for covering the vestry windows with wyre.

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  2.  A workman who fixes and attends to the conducting wires of an electric service.

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1881.  Instr. Census Clerks (1885), 47. Telegraph Fitter, Wireman.

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1902.  F. C. Raphael, The Electrician Wireman’s Pocket Bk., Ed. Note. Such … Memoranda as would be useful to the Electric Light Wireman in his work.

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