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

For rarer or more expensive bulbs, Mr. Hsu said, the staff creates boxlike underground cages from hardware cloth for protection.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020

The moss, in turn, had been laid in a rooting bench with a hardware cloth bottom exposed to the air.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association