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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..

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

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..

Screen :: Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like..

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..

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

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