sifter

English

Etymology

sift +‎ -er

Noun

sifter (plural sifters)

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
(rare) One who sifts.
He was employed as a sifter.
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

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