[f. WIRE v. or sb. + -ER1.] One who wires (in various senses of the vb.); also (slang), one who picks pockets with a wire.
1857. Ducange Anglicus, Vulgar T., 24. Wirer, pickpocket.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s Field, 490. The nightly wirer of their innocent hare.
1881. Instr. Census Clerks (1885), 74. Straw Hat and Bonnet Making:… Presser, Liner, Wirer.
1901. Daily Chron., 10 Sept., 9/1. Mineral Water Trade.—Wanted … wirers, and bottlers.
1916. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 264/1. Then the wirers got brain waves … and began straightway to panic terribly, in code, to get him back on to the right path.
