hardware cloth

American  

noun

1. galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inch (0.64 and 1.27 centimeters), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.

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hardware cloth

Gardeners at the Arboretum and CUH have taken to constructing hardware cloth enclosures around all new plantings — a laborious task, and a distracting garden feature among all your beautiful beds and borders.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023

If you’re worried about rodents entering the bin, the department suggests lining the bottom of the bin with a hardware cloth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2021

We were told to provide lots of ventilation, so we made a coop that has an entire wall of hardware cloth.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

“I had my math-resistant 9-year-old help calculate the perimeter of the coop to figure out how much hardware cloth we had to buy.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2020

By using heavy galvanized hardware cloth 2 x 2 mesh, which means that it has 1/2-inch square holes, is ideal for the top and sides of this frame.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl