Word.ws English Dictionary

hardware cloth

hardware cloth noun: a flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.

Noun

hardware cloth (countable and uncountable, plural hardware cloths)

  1. (uncountable) A flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.
    • Hardware cloth is a sturdy, thick wire mesh that comes plain or coated […]1997, Sara Jane Von Trapp, Landscaping from the Ground Up, page 84
  2. (countable) A type of such fabric, differentiated by material, coating, wire diameter, and mesh size.

Forms of hardware cloth

pluralhardware cloths

Questions about hardware cloth

What does hardware cloth mean?
Hardware cloth means a flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.
What part of speech is hardware cloth?
Hardware cloth is a noun.
What is the plural of hardware cloth?
The plural of hardware cloth is hardware cloths.

Words near hardware cloth in the dictionary

  1. hardveld
  2. hardveldt
  3. hardwall
  4. hardware
  5. hardware acceleration
  6. hardware cloth
  7. hardware cloths
  8. hardware description language
  9. hardware description languages
  10. hardware disease
  11. hardware engineer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hardware cloth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hardware cloth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hardware_cloth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.