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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wireman

worker on electrical lines, 1881, from wire (n.) + man (n.).

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wireman

n. Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring.

WordNet
wireman

n. a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring [syn: wirer]

Usage examples of "wireman".

There are those who remember that the Invaders had rebuilt it before they were driven out during the Liberation, but, however that may be, Wireman had the new Geneva built upon it, and the old traditions furnish a satisfactory foundation for the new reality.

So long as Wireman was still alive, it was he who represented Earth, who was the symbol of something gone twenty years to ruin but still alive as long as he was.

Only if Wireman were to go would Harmon again have a function, and weight.

Harmon dropped his eyes helplessly, and after a minute, Wireman took up the fraying thread.

Hames bent over to help Wireman out of his chair, and Harmon saw Genovese getting to his feet, looking thoughtful.

Government in Exile still represents its people and Wireman was the man.

Harmon kept his features still, wondering what Wireman was going to do.

Harmon tried not to listen to what Wireman and the others were discussing in the living room.

He waited, alone, wondering whether Wireman would somehow make it work, after all.

Thomas Harmon and Ralph Wireman, but of all they had ever represented.

People can believe that so long as Ralph Wireman lives, so long as there is a group calling itself the government of free Earth, that a free Earth does, in fact, somehow continue to live on.

In the first years of the Government in Exile, there had been so much for Wireman and the cabinet to do that the boy had naturally been little more than a figure vaguely in the background.

Michael Wireman waited for the hatch to pop open, knowing that the scudding spaceship would be very nearly at drop altitude.

But Michael Wireman had reflected, once or twice on the fact that no one on Cheiron, either Centaurian or Earthman, would know for months how this had come out.

Michael Wireman said lamely, possessed by a feeling that his first meeting with a free Earthman ought to be an occasion.