Wiry: Definition and part of speech

Wiry

  1. a. Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.
  2. a. Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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