SIFTER

sifter

Noun

  1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
  2. One who sifts.
    He was employed as a sifter.
  3. 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.


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