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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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..

Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

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

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

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