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sifter.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsɪftɚ/General-American
  1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

  2. One who sifts.

    rare
    He was employed as a sifter.
  3. 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.

Where this word comes from

From sift + -er.

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