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wire brush

wire brush noun: a brush that has bristles made of wire; used as an abrasive and on masonry etc; especially (when without a qualifier) the hand tool type of such a brush.

wire brush: a brush that has bristles made of wire; used as an abrasive and on masonry etc; especially (when...
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Noun

wire brush (plural wire brushes)

  1. A brush that has bristles made of wire; used as an abrasive and on masonry etc; especially (when without a qualifier) the hand tool type of such a brush.

Verb

wire brush (third-person singular simple present wire brushes, present participle wire brushing, simple past and past participle wire brushed)

  1. To scrub with a wire brush, especially the hand tool type.

wire brush meaning in Tamil

wire brush in Tamil

கம்பித்தூரிகை, கம்பித் தூரிகை, கம்பித்துடைப்பம்

Forms of wire brush

Noun
pluralwire brushes
Verb
third-person singular presentwire brushes
present participlewire brushing
past participlewire brushed
pastwire brushed

Questions about wire brush

What does wire brush mean?
Wire brush means a brush that has bristles made of wire; used as an abrasive and on masonry etc; especially (when without a qualifier) the hand tool type of such a brush.
What is wire brush in Tamil?
Wire brush in Tamil is கம்பித்தூரிகை, கம்பித் தூரிகை, கம்பித்துடைப்பம். See Wire brush meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wire brush?
Wire brush can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wire brush?
The plural of wire brush is wire brushes.

Words near wire brush in the dictionary

  1. wire bails
  2. wire bonder
  3. wire bonders
  4. wire bridge
  5. wire bridges
  6. wire brush
  7. wire brushed
  8. wire brushes
  9. wire brushing
  10. wire cartridge
  11. wire cartridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wire brush (page history and authors); wire brush (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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