steel wool

1. 1.

   a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive

   Synonymswire wool

   Broaderabrasive

Questions about steel wool

What does steel wool mean?

steel wool means "a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive".

What is another word for steel wool?

Close synonyms include wire wool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steel wool a common word?

steel wool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.