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wireman

[wahyuhr-muhn] / ˈwaɪər mən /


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Andrea Kelly Kelly graduated from an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ pre-apprenticeship program to become a construction wireman.

From Slate Feb. 7, 2023

After graduating from DeForest High School, Havey got a job as an apprentice wireman for the Western Electric Company in Chicago.

From Washington Times Mar. 12, 2016

An enlisted man answered: "Hello . . . wait a minute," and he shouted: "Hey, where's that wireman, anyone seen that wireman?"

From Time Magazine Archive

If the fish surges ahead, the wireman can move with the fish and the gaff is not in the way of the leader or in danger of breaking it.

From Time Magazine Archive

This book is intended for the amateur, the wireman, or the engineer who desires to establish a means of telephonic communication between the rooms of his home, office, or shop.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

"The union's complaints," said Allbright, "are on the following grounds: "Employing a worker not in the presence of registered wiremen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been one of the most sought-after "wiremen," or electronic eavesdroppers, in the East, supplying bugging and recording devices to clients on both sides of the law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near by passed a parade of wiremen, riflemen, mortarmen and stretcher bearers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men of the following minor trades were also invited: cable-jointers, chauffeurs, drillers, dynamo attendants, electric-bell fitters, joiners' helpers, machinists, motor fitters, plumbers' mates, switchboard attendants, tool-grinders, wiremen.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

The Electrical Workers' Union, made up principally of inside wiremen, conducts apprentice classes taught by journeymen.

From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz




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