hardware cloth

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.

Example Sentences

I built a corral of hardware cloth around one Sharp-tailed Sparrow nest in order to measure the young after they left the nest.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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They were constructed of hardware cloth having a half-inch mesh.

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