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• wire brush
  wire brush

  noun

  a brush with steel bristles for removing rust, flaking paint, etc.
• wire-brush
  wire-brush

  verb (used with object)

  to clean or remove with a wire brush.

wire brush

¹ American  

noun

1. a brush with steel bristles for removing rust, flaking paint, etc.

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wire-brush ² American  

[wahyuhr-bruhsh] / ˈwaɪərˈbrʌʃ /

verb (used with object)

1. to clean or remove with a wire brush.

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wire brush British  

noun

1. a brush having wire bristles, used for cleaning metal, esp for removing rust, or for brushing against a cymbal

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Mr. Carluccio held court with passers-by, as he squirted the paint onto the bumpy canvas, and then used a coarse wire brush to work it into the rough contours of the cover’s crevices and ridges.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2018

As to that wire brush, despite stories of people ingesting the bristles, “you’re as likely to win the lottery, with happier results of course,” Raichlen says.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018

At the Spring Avenue house, he took out all the original door knobs, soaked them and cleaned them with a wire brush.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2017

Surreptitiously he may even advocate that England's Test groundsmen consider dropping the mower blade a little lower next summer before digging out the old wire brush from the back of the shed.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2013

The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

A power drill or grinder motor with a wire-brush attachment will save a lot of elbow grease, but smaller tools can be taken care of by hand.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2014

He is a tall, thin man with a wire-brush shock of cherry-soda colored hair and a look of permanent seriousness.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2011

Through the long aching minutes nothing whatever happened, and her wire-brush tail returned slowly to its proper shape.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

The wire-brush never flags; And what's the result?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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