wire-wove

English

Noun

wire-wove (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of wirewove (all senses)
    • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley:
      It is from the great book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of black-letter, or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have vernturously essayed to read a chapter to the public.
    • 2011, Michael Jackson, Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want, page 63:
      Abdul's wife, Tilkolo, with whom I enjoyed a joking relationship, brought Pauline three hearthstones, and Abdul found us an old wire-wove bed base to go with the straw and sacking paillasse we had carried from Kabala.
    • 2013, A. P. Laurie, The Painter's Methods and Materials:
      Take one or more sheets of 'wire-wove roofing' cut to the size of the picture and fasten on to a wooden frame or stretcher by means of brass screws and copper nails.
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