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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Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Coscinomancy :: Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
Searce :: Searce (n.) A fine sieve.
Jig :: "Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n..
Limp :: Limp (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
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..
Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..
Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners..
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..
Searcer :: Searcer (n.) A searce, or sieve..
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..
Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Try :: Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain..
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..
Sile :: Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
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