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

Searcer :: Searcer (n.) A searce, or 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..

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

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

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

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

Knockings :: Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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