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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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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

Next the nuts are sifted through a screen made of ½-inch mesh hardware cloth.

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

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