Usually means: Fabric used for straining foods.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word cheesecloth:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheesecloth: Merriam-Webster
  2. cheesecloth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheesecloth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheesecloth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheesecloth: Vocabulary.com
  6. cheesecloth: Wordnik
  7. cheesecloth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cheesecloth: Wiktionary
  9. cheesecloth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cheesecloth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cheesecloth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cheesecloth: Dictionary.com
  13. Cheesecloth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. cheesecloth: Rhymezone
  15. cheesecloth: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cheesecloth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cheesecloth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. cheesecloth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cheesecloth: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheesecloth: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Textile (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.

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