"wire brush" meaning in English

See wire brush in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wire brush.wav Forms: wire brushes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikidata QID: Q45299 Hypernyms: brush Related terms: wirebrush [alternative], wire-brush [alternative] Coordinate_terms: wire wheel Translations (brush with bristles made of wire): stålbørste [common-gender] (Danish), teräsharja (Finnish), sreangscuab [feminine] (Irish), stålbørste [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), stålbørste [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), szczotka druciana [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-wire_brush-en-noun-en:Q45299 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations, Tools Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Tools: 52 48

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wire brush.wav Forms: wire brushes [present, singular, third-person], wire brushing [participle, present], wire brushed [participle, past], wire brushed [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Coordinate_terms: wire wheel, sandblast
    Sense id: en-wire_brush-en-verb-bKEK8JVQ Categories (other): Tools Disambiguation of Tools: 52 48

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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