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Wortle. World English Historical Dictionary

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Wortle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wortle Forms: α. 5 wirtil, writel, 9 whirtle, wortle. β. 7 wurdle, 9 wordle. [Of obscure origin.] An implement used in the drawing of wire or lead-pipe (see quots. 1875). Also Comb., as wortle-maker, -plate.

1 1430.  Cov. Leet-bk., 142. Joh. Smyth, wirtilmaker. Ibid., 160. Tho. Smyth, writelmaker.

2 1664.  H. Power, Exp. Philos., 56. Your Wire-drawers know, that if they take a short piece of Wire,… and drill it through, that then though they draw it out to the smalness of a hair, yet will it still remain hollow quite through in despite of their Wurdle.

3 1819.  Rees, Cycl., XXVII. 3 M 2. The workmen are provided with a great number of these plates…; they are called whirtles. Ibid. This winds up the double chains, drawing the pipe through the whirtle, by which it diminishes its size and lengthens it out.

4 1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Whirtle, a perforated steel plate through which pipe or wire is drawn to reduce its diameter. Ibid., Wordle, one of the pivoted cams in a draw-head,… capable of simultaneous adjustment … to regulate the size of the throat through which the tube or wire is drawn.

5 1888.  Science, 14 Dec., 286/1. The wire … breaking into short lengths when being pulled through the wortles.

6 1913.  Engineering, 18 April, 541/3. It is also probable that the earliest wortles were hard stones. Ibid., 542/1. The wortle-plates required by those engaged in drawing wire by hand.

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