Wirework: alternatives and connections

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves…

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finish…

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, elect…

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductor…

Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on th…

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of…

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.