SIFTER

sifter

(noun) a household sieve (as for flour)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

sifter (plural sifters)

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

(rare) One who sifts.

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.

Anagrams

• Fister, firest, firste, fister, freits, refits, resift, rifest, strife

Source: Wiktionary

Sift"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, sifts.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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 lamell

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition