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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..

Puree :: Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated..

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..

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..

Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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..

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

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

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

Trommel :: Trommel (n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores..

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

Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..

Limp :: Limp (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

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

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

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis..

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

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

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

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