Definition of sieve

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Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

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Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter..
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..
Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
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..
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..
Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..
Harp :: Harp (n.) A grain sieve.
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..
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..
Sile :: Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
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.
Rudder :: Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.
Sarse :: Sarse (n.) A fine sieve; a searce.
Searce :: Searce (n.) A fine sieve.
Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..
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