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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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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