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wiring off

wiring off is the present participle and gerund of wire off.

Meaning of wire off

Verb

wire off (third-person singular simple present wires off, present participle wiring off, simple past and past participle wired off)

  1. To separate or close off by installing a wire barricade or fence, as around the perimeter.
    • It was worthless land on the north edge of the chalk country, and he got a large tract of it, which he wired off.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
  2. (dated) To send (a message) by wire.
  3. (pottery) To separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.

Questions about wiring off

What is wiring off the present participle and gerund of?
Wiring off is the present participle and gerund of wire off.

Words near wiring off in the dictionary

  1. wiring harness
  2. wiring harnesses
  3. wiring in
  4. wiring loom
  5. wiring looms
  6. wiring off
  7. wirings
  8. Wirksworth
  9. Wirlinga
  10. wirra
  11. Wirraba

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