Associations to the word «Sifter»
Noun
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Wiktionary
SIFTER, noun. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
SIFTER, noun. (rare) One who sifts.
SIFTER, noun. 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.
Dictionary definition
SIFTER, noun. A household sieve (as for flour).
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.