strainer

A kitchen strainer (1).

Meaning

Noun

  • A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.
  • A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
  • One who strains.

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Origin

  • From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain + -er.

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