steel-wool pad

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   abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing

   Broaderabrader

Questions about steel-wool pad

What does steel-wool pad mean?

steel-wool pad means "abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing".

Is steel-wool pad a common word?

steel-wool pad 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.