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Sifter

//ˈsɪftɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

    "Near-synonym: sieve"

  2. 2
    a household sieve (as for flour) wordnet
  3. 3
    One who sifts. rare

    "He was employed as a sifter."

  4. 4
    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.

Etymology

From sift + -er.

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