wiredraw

• wire-draw
• wyredraw (obsolete)

From wire +‎ draw.

wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn)

1. (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , I.56:

     I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.