wire off

verb — 3 senses

wire off

verb
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

To separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.

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