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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Example Sentences

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

The use of hardware cloth or other close-meshed wire is effective, but this method also has the disadvantage of being relatively expensive for the nurseryman.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association