Wiredrawers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. People who produce thin wire by pulling heated or cold metal through a series of progressively smaller holes in a die
2. Craftspeople or factory workers whose trade is stretching metal rods into fine wire by forcing them through tapered openings
3. Those who work at drawing metal stock into lengths of wire, reducing its diameter by pulling it through hardened steel dies

Etymology: Wiredrawers are people, usually metalworkers, who draw metal such as gold, silver or iron through a series of progressively smaller holes to make wire. The plural form simply names more than one of these workers. The noun is built from "wire," a thin drawn strand of metal, and "drawer," one who draws, so the name describes the trade in its plainest terms: a person whose job is drawing wire out to length and thickness.