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steel wool

noun

  1. a tangled or matted mass of stringlike steel shavings, used for scouring, polishing, smoothing, etc.


steel wool

noun

  1. a tangled or woven mass of fine steel fibres, used for cleaning or polishing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of steel wool1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

Work stubborn areas with steel wool and wipe them with a rag.

Lewis also recommends using steel wool with a grade of 0000, the finest type of wool that will not scratch surfaces.

His Jewish Cuban father owned a steel wool factory; his mother, a Jewish Romanian, narrowly survived the Holocaust when her family caught one of the last ships to Cuba.

The artist often uses steel wool as a paintbrush to create tiny dots of paint, in a contemporary spin on Pointillism.

The author of the post worked in the second application with superfine 0000 steel wool, but using a synthetic pad would be safer.

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