wire glass

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   a glass that contains a layer of wire netting in it

   Broaderglass

Questions about wire glass

What does wire glass mean?

wire glass means "a glass that contains a layer of wire netting in it".

Is wire glass a common word?

wire glass 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.