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

The easiest way to prevent this isn’t to extend the walls downward, it’s to give the coop a floor of some kind of sturdy wire mesh, like fencing or hardware cloth.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020

The material which has passed through the ½-inch mesh screen is now sifted on a hardware cloth screen with 5 meshes to the inch.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association