sifter

sifter

English

Etymology

sift +‎ -er

Noun

sifter (plural sifters)

1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
2. (rare) One who sifts.

   He was employed as a sifter.

3. Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.

Derived terms

• sugar sifter

Translations

tool for sifting

Finnish: seula (fi) Irish: criathar m, criathradóir m, scagaire m Norwegian: Bokmål: sil (no) m

Polish: sito (pl) n Spanish: colador fino

Anagrams

• Fister, firest, firste, fister, freits, refits, resift, rifest, strife