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Knockings :: Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore..

Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime..

Sile :: Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.

Searcer :: Searcer (n.) A searce, or sieve..

Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.

Van :: Van (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain..

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..

Coscinomancy :: Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.

Try :: Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain..

Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

Griddle :: Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners..

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Baleen :: Baleen (n.) Plates or blades of whalebone, from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth..

Cribriform :: Cribriform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..

Rudder :: Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.

Jigging :: "Jigging (n.) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water..

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..

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