EGAVE

sifter

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
  2. noun One who sifts.
    He was employed as a sifter.
  3. noun Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.

Similar words

cinder plansifter sieve riddle sieving sieve set grinder spider skimmer jigger duster

Often followed by

and of or to is the with for baskets

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