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Definition of sieve

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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..

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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..

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

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

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

Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Temse :: Temse (n.) 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..