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sifter|ˈsɪftə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who sifts, in lit. or fig. senses.
1579Lyly Euphues Epist. Dedicatory, Though the stile nothing delight the dayntie eare of the curious sifter. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxiv. (1592) 547 Some searchers and sifters of words. 1611Cotgr., Cribleur, a sifter. 1720T. Boston Fourfold State (1797) 311 Such is the exactness of the sieve and care of the sifter. 1752Fielding Covent Gard. Jrnl. No. 23, They elude the enquiries of the most diligent sifters of antiquity. 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. II. 172/2 A medium-sized dust-yard will employ..six sifters. 1871R. B. Vaughan S. Thomas of Aquin II. 646 He did not take for granted like the Sophist... He was a winnower and a sifter.
b. Ornith. (See quot.)
1872Darwin Orig. Species (ed. 6) vii. 183 Ducks..subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters.
2. A utensil or apparatus for sifting; a sieve; also dial., a fire-shovel, kitchen shovel.
1611Cotgr., Crible, a siue, or sifter; raunging siue. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 209/1 The pulp is first made to flow from the vat upon a wire frame, or sifter. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2175/2 Sifters are used for sifting ashes from cinders; flour from lumps, etc. 1881Porcelain Wks., Worcester 7 The number of pumps, sifters, and presses which are employed. |