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steel-wool

steel-wool is the alternative form of steel wool.

Meaning of steel wool

Noun

steel wool (countable and uncountable, plural steel wools)

  1. Fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.
    • Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.

Questions about steel-wool

What is steel-wool the alternative form of?
Steel-wool is the alternative form of steel wool.

Words near steel-wool in the dictionary

  1. steel-rings
  2. steel-string guitar
  3. steel-string guitars
  4. steel-toe boot
  5. steel-toe boots
  6. steel-wool
  7. steel-worker
  8. steel-workers
  9. steelback
  10. steelband
  11. steelbands

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