sievern.
Now rare or Obsolete.
1. A sieve-maker.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of sieves
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 78/2 Cyver, or maker of sevys.., cribrarius.
1616 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 46 Recd of Rychard Robeson, Seaver.
1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 384 Sievers, fellmongers, tanners, weavers, bleachers.
2. A sifter.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > one who
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1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan (1854) 189 Robin's associates were three of the ‘Sievers’ of Sessantilly, the rival mill to Goodie.
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