strainer

From Middle English streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪnɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(r)

strainer (plural strainers)

1. A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.

   Synonym: sile

2. A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
3. One who strains.
   • 2008, Kirby I. Bland, ‎Michael G. Sarr, ‎Markus W. Büchler, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, page 843:

     An important factor with respect to recurrence [of rectal prolapse] is the fact that many of these patients are chronic strainers.

• arrestin, restrain, retrains, terrains, trainers, transire