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steel wool

steel wool noun: fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.

steel wool: fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive
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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.

steel wool meaning in Tamil and Arabic

steel wool in Tamil

உருக்கு நொய்

steel wool in Arabic

fine threads of steel
سِلْك اَلتَّنْظِيف silk at-tanẓīf

Forms of steel wool

pluralsteel wools
alternative formsteel-wool
alternative formsteelwool

Questions about steel wool

What does steel wool mean?
Steel wool means fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.
What is steel wool in Tamil?
Steel wool in Tamil is உருக்கு நொய். See Steel wool meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is steel wool?
Steel wool is a noun.
What is the plural of steel wool?
The plural of steel wool is steel wools.

Words near steel wool in the dictionary

  1. steel up
  2. steel wheel
  3. steel wheels
  4. steel wine
  5. steel wines
  6. steel wool
  7. steel wools
  8. steel worker
  9. steel workers
  10. steel-blue
  11. steel-cut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: steel wool (page history and authors); steel wool (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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