wire-brush

A form of wire brush — 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.

Meanings

nounwire-brush (plural wire-brushes)

plural wire-brushes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of wire brush.
verbwire-brush (third-person singular simple present wire-brushes, present participle wire-brushing, simple past and past participle wire-brushed)

present singular third person wire-brushes · participle present wire-brushing · participle past wire-brushed · past wire-brushed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of wire brush.
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