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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Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..
Limp :: Limp (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..
Trommel :: Trommel (n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores..
Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..
Try :: Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain..
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..
Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.
Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..
Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.
Jig :: "Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n..
Sarse :: Sarse (n.) A fine sieve; a searce.
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..
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..
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..
Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..
Cribble :: Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..
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