sifter

Meaning

Noun

  • A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
  • One who sifts.
  • 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.

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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