wire off

English

Verb

wire off (third-person singular simple present wires off, present participle wiring off, simple past and past participle wired off)

1. To separate or close off by installing a wire barricade or fence, as around the perimeter.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[1]:

     It was worthless land on the north edge of the chalk country, and he got a large tract of it, which he wired off.

2. (dated) To send (a message) by wire.
3. (pottery) To separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.