wire wool

1. 1.

   a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive

   Synonymssteel wool

   Broaderabrasive

Questions about wire wool

What does wire wool mean?

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

What is another word for wire wool?

Close synonyms include steel 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 wire wool a common word?

wire wool is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.