To inveigle.
1778. The conversation was purely accidental. You were not wire-drawn, as hath been asserted by your friend.—Maryland Journal, Oct. 22.
1839. Look at him, gentlemen of the jury. There he stands, walking about, with the cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, trying to wire-draw three oak-trees from my client’s pocket.—Daily Sun, Cincinnati, May 22: quoted from John Neal.
