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Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.

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

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..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter..

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

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

Harp :: Harp (n.) A grain sieve.

Screen :: Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like..

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

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

Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Searce :: Searce (n.) A fine sieve.

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

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