wiredraw

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To draw (metal) into wire.
2. v. To treat (a subject, for example) with great length, excessive detail, or overrefinement; spin out.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To draw (metal) out into wire; especially, to form into wire, as a metal, by forcibly prilling through a series of holes gradually decreasing in diameter.
2. To draw out to greater length; extend in quantity or time; stretch, especially to excess; prolong; protract.
3. To draw out into excessive tenuity or subtlety, as a thought, argument, or discourse; spin out, especially by useless refinements, hair-splitting, or the like; render prolix at the expense of force and clearness.
4. To stretch or strain unwarrantably; wrest; pervert; distort.
5. To beguile; cheat.
6. In the steam-engine, to draw off (steam) by one or more small apertures, materially reducing its pressure after the passage.
7. To follow the profession, practice, or methods of a wiredrawer; especially, to use unwarrantable methods; pervert; cheat.

Wiktionary

1. v. To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
2. v. obsolete To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
2. v. Hence, to draw by art or violence.
3. v. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity.
4. v. (Steam Engine) To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.