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Definition of sieve

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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..

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Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

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

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.

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..

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

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..

Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging..

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

Sarse :: Sarse (n.) A fine sieve; a searce.

Jig :: "Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n..

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

Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..

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..

Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..

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

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

Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

Cribble :: Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.