Associations to the word «Sifter»

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.
William Butler Yeats